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JAMB Official Jailed 8 Years For ₦12.5M E-Card Theft

December 21, 2019 3:45 am

Delta State High Court, Asaba has sentenced a JAMB official, James Orji Ihejirika to eight years imprisonment for stealing the Board’s E-facility cards and change of course cards worth ₦12.5 million.

Ihejirka was an accountant working at the Asaba JAMB office. He received consignments  containing  E-facility cards and change of course cards worth N12.5 million from JAMB headquarters but instead of handing over to his state coordinator, he sold them and converted the money to his personal use.

He was charged under section 19 of the Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Act 2000, and section 386 of Criminal Code …

Homosexual Jailed For Raping 4 Minors

December 19, 2019 10:08 am

An Ota Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Thursday sentenced a 26-year-old homosexual, Michael Kudowo to 11 years in prison for raping four male minors.

NAN reports that the senior magistrate, Mr Shotunde Shotayo, ruled that the convict must serve the sentence at the correctional centre in Abeokuta, Ogun, without any option of fine.

Shotayo also ordered that the four male minors (names withheld) and aged between 12 years and 15 years should be taken to Borstal Training Institution, Abeokuta for reorientation.

Kudowo, who lives within Ile-Ita area, Ota, had pleaded guilty to the three-count charge of kidnapping, raping and having …

A Man Jailed In Abuja For Killing A Cow – Femi Fani-Kayode

December 14, 2019 4:25 pm

The former Minister of Aviation, Nigeria, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode writes about the importance the Nigerian government places on cattle’s lives and how they impartially protect herdsmen on his verified Facebook page .

Read Also: FFK Lambastes Arewa Youths For Power Intoxication

“A man has been jailed in Abuja for killing a cow that strayed on his land. Meanwhile Fulani herdsmen who kill others and take their land go free.”

“Ten steps forward, twenty steps back. That is the story of Nigeria. Meanwhile, the whole world is moving forward.”

 

Chief Femi Fani-Kayode…

Just In: Orji Kalu Jailed 12 Years For Fraud

December 5, 2019 6:59 am

A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday, sentenced former governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, to 12 years in prison for ₦7.65 billion fraud.

Orji Kalu who is a serving senator on the platform of the ruling All Prgressives Congress, is the chief whip of the senate.

Justice Mohammed Idris who delivered the sentence had earlier declared him guilty of the charge in the case that had been on for more than a decade.

Read Also: ₦7.5bn Fraud: Former Abia Governor, Orji Kalu Convicted

Kalu had been standing trial alongsde his firm, Slok Nigeria Limited, and Udeh Udeogu, who …

K-Pop Star Jailed For 6 Years For Gang Rape, Spycam Crimes

November 29, 2019 4:39 pm

South Korean singer-songwriter Jung Joon-young was convicted Friday of gang rape and distributing videos of the assaults and other sexual encounters, and was jailed for six years in a scandal that has rocked K-pop.

Jung and Choi Jong-hoon, a former member of boy band FT Island, were found guilty of gang-raping two different victims on two occasions in 2016.

Separately, 30-year-old Jung was also convicted of filming himself having sex with other women without their knowledge and sharing the footage without their consent.

It is the highest-profile example of an epidemic of spycam crimes in South Korea, which have prompted …

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Jailed Journalist Recounts Rampant Cases Of Sodomy, Drugs

November 14, 2019 1:06 pm
After 162 days at the Kaduna State Central Prisons, Steven Kefason on Wednesday shared the experience of the shocking things happening in the facility.Kefason, a freelance journalist and hygiene management professional, told The Guardian in an exclusive interview that sodomy, bribery and corruption were rampant in the facility.

Kefason was jailed in the Kaduna prison by the Kaduna State government over a Facebook post.  He was arrested in Port Harcourt, Rivers State by operatives of the State Investigation Bureau of the Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Police Force and was brought to Kaduna on May 10 after

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6 Indian Students Jailed In U.S. Over Immigration Fraud

November 11, 2019 1:10 pm
A U.S. court has sentenced six of the eight Indians arrested in the Farmington University immigration fraud case, as per U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) regulations.

The Indian students were arrested on charges of running a “Pay to Stay” visa racket wherein they were assisted hundreds of immigrants in illegally prolonging their stays in the US.

Six were arrested in Detroit, one in Florida and one in Virginia on orders of the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Michigan, Southern Division.

All eight defendants, from the states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in India, pleaded guilty, Khaalid …

Nigerian Jailed For 78 Months In US For Marriage Frauds

Nigerian Jailed For 78 Months In US For Marriage Frauds

October 25, 2019 10:50 am

A Nigerian national resident in Atlanta, Georgia, Olufolajimi Abegunde has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for cyber fraud.

Abegunde, an MBA graduate from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, who also ordered to pay $57,911.62 in restitution to the victims of his offense, a statement by the United States Department of Justice said.

Abegunde, 32, and Javier Luis Ramos-Alonso, 29, were both charged in a criminal organisation in which members “spoofed” emails and created fake profiles on dating websites.

The court said Abegeunde played a key role, along with Ramos-Alonso, in laundering fraud funds from an October …

Israel President Begs Putin Over Woman Jailed For Cannabis

Israel President Begs Putin Over Woman Jailed For Cannabis

October 13, 2019 11:04 am

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday appealed to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to pardon an Israeli-American jailed for smuggling cannabis who is reportedly caught up in a prisoner exchange request.

Naama Issachar was caught with nine grammes of the drug in her checked luggage while transiting from India to Israel at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport in April.

The 26-year-old was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in jail by a Russian court on Friday, with Moscow reportedly seeking an exchange of a prisoner set to be extradited by Israel to the United States for her release.

“Naama made a grave mistake and …

Female Banker Jailed One Year For Fraud In Osogbo

Female Banker Jailed One Year For Fraud In Osogbo

October 9, 2019 10:17 am

A 51- year-old female banker, Yetunde Iyabo Adewunmi, was on Tuesday sentenced to one-year imprisonment for conspiracy, aiding and abating fraud.

Adewunmi was convicted of the amended charge filed against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, before Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court 2, sitting in Osogbo, Osun State.

A statement issued by the EFCC’s Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said investigation conducted by officials of the Commission had revealed that the convict used her position as a staffer of a new generation bank in Ile Ife, Osun State, …

Lecturer jailed for insulting President Museveni in poem

Lecturer jailed for insulting President Museveni in poem

July 8, 2019 10:45 am

Ugandan feminist and lecturer Stella Nyanzi, has been jailed over a poem about ‘Vagina’ she wrote and shared on Facebook in September.

The Ugandan feminist in the poem,  used a graphic description of the birth of the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, and his mother’s vagina to criticize his “oppression, suppression and repression” in the country.

Stella who was arraigned before Buganda Road Court, was charged with “cyber harassment and offensive communication”.

She was accused of intending to disturb the peace and privacy of President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and his mother the late Esteeri.

The poem she wrote, read:

Yoweri, …

Breaking: Court grants Naira Marley ₦2m bail

Naira Marley jailed

May 21, 2019 10:08 pm

Nigerian musician, Azeez Fashola (a.k.a Naira Marley) on Monday pleaded not guilty to an 11-count charge bordering on conspiracy, possession of counterfeit credit cards and fraud.

However, his bail request was not heard as he was ordered to be remanded in prison till 30 May.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) charged the musician before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

Also mentioned in the charge is one Yad Isril, who is said to be at large.

Following the not-guilty plea, EFCC counsel, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, requested the court to give a date for commencement of the musician’s trial.…

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