The Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Thursday, March 23, 2023, sentenced a 51-year-old utility officer, Ubregbo Parmer, to life imprisonment for defiling his female colleague’s 9-year-old daughter. The convict committed the offence on December 10, 2019, inside his office in Magodo, Lagos. Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had…
The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Okoita, Ibiono Ibom local government, has sentenced a Prophet, Anwana Peter Essien, to 21 years in prison for raping his 10-year-old stepdaughter. The 37-year-old prophet was convicted of raping the JSS One student on August 9, 2019. The incident happened when the victim and her younger…
A Singaporean woman who was recruited by a Malaysia-based Nigerian love scammer, Awolola Oladayo Opeyemi, has been sentenced to 15 months imprisonment for her role in the scam. 32-year-old Suhaili Suparjo fell in love with Opeyemi and had a daughter with him. Persuaded by him and “blinded by love”, she acted as his money mule…
An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure, has sentenced a man, Sunday Oluwafemi, to life imprisonment for defiling his wife’s 9-year-old niece, who was said to have been living with the couple. The convict was said to have been arrested by policemen in the state for committing the offence in Akure in 2019….
Dr John Abebe, the in-law to the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has bagged seven years imprisonment for forgery and laundering. Abebe was sentenced after it was established that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned Abebe, who is a younger brother to the late former…
A sexual offence and domestic violence Court in Lagos, on Tuesday, February 14, 2023, sentenced a pastor, Nduka Anyanwu, to double life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating two biological sisters in a church complex. Recall that the convict, who claims to be a Minister at a Lord’s Chosen Church branch in Oshodi, raped the…
A Non-Governmental Organization, Brave Heart Initiative has secured a court victory against a man who raped an 8-year-old girl in Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. The NGO, in a statement on Sunday, February 12, 2023, said the convict, Frederick Agbozuadu was found guilty and sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Magistrate…
The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Chief Magistrate Court, sitting in Awka, Anambra State, has sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Success James, to prison for offences of child labor, child exploitation, abduction of children and child stealing. The convict was earlier apprehended at Onitsha and arraigned before the Chief Magistrate Court in Awka, sometime…
The Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba and presided over by Honourable Justice Flora Ngozi Azinge, has sentenced a 28-year-old father, Amechi Ogo, to life imprisonment for raping his four-year-old daughter. The defendant was arraigned on a charge of rape for having unlawful carnal of his child at Asaba on 31st May 2018,…
Chief Magistrate at Kira Court in Kampala, Uganda, Ms Roseline Nsenge has sentenced 18-year-old Tanzanian national, Kaftah Queen, to three years in jail after pleading guilty to a charge of aggravated torture. The student at Trinity College Nabweru and a group of other girls still at large, beat up a 15-year-old girl, Nicole, slapping, kicking and dragging…
Justice Phoeba Ayua of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced a 35-year-old woman, Amadi Joy Ngozi, to three years imprisonment for human trafficking. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in a statement on Thursday, January 19, 2023, said Amadi was convicted on a two-count charge…
A North Carolina man accused of shooting and killing a 5-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack will serve the rest of his life in a U.S. prison without parole. Darius Sessoms, 25, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Thursday December 29, at the Wilson County Courthouse for the August 2020 shooting of 5-year-old Cannon Hinnant…
WNBA star, Brittney Griner is spending time at a medical facility in Texas before she returns to her regular life after nearly 10 months of imprisonment in Russia. The basketball star who was released Thursday, December 8 as part of a prisoner exchange between the US and Russia for convicted arms dealer Viktor Bout –…
A Nairobi court has sentenced to five years in prison a man who threw his date off the 12th floor of a building in Nairobi’s Central District (CBD) in a date gone sour. Moses Njoroge was found guilty of causing bodily harm to Eunice Wangari, whom he met on Facebook, in a ruling issued…
A 25-year-old man, Siyabonga Ndlozi was on Friday, November 11, sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of his girlfriend in South Africa. Ndlozi, who was charged with murder and the Contravention of a protection order, also received five years for domestic violence at Delmas high court, in Mpumalanga. According to a statement by Capt. Gibi…
The Pretoria Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in South Africa on Wednesday, November 9, sentenced a Zimbabwean woman, Lady Memory Mutsika, to 3 years of direct imprisonment for 128 counts of theft. Mutsika,43, was a church treasurer of the Pretoria City Seventh-Day Adventist church. Her responsibilities included transferring tithe and offering money deposited to the church…
Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Lagos has convicted and sentenced a former professional footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior to five years’ imprisonment for cocaine trafficking. The judgement was handed down after Emmanuel pleaded guilty to the charge of trafficking in the banned substance made against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency…
A man who stabbed an intruder to death when he was a teenager has been jailed. Dean Kerrie was just 17 when he stabbed Jack Power, 25, in the chest in July 2018. Power smashed a window to get into Kerrie’s house in Waterford, south east Ireland, because he believed Kerrie, now 21, had…
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced 62-year-old Daudu Jimoh, aka Baba Cooler, to life imprisonment for raping a 9-year-old girl in Ilupeju Ekiti. The convict was arraigned before Justice Lekan Ogunmoye on August 5, 2020, on one count charge of rape. The charge reads: “That Daudu Jimoh on 27/9/2019 at…
A farm labourer, Isiaka Adeoye, who raped a 17-year-old girl was on Wednesday October 12, sentenced to life imprisonment, by Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos State. Asides ruling that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against the convict beyond reasonable doubt, Justice Soladoye also held that the testimony of…