My wife frequently beats me, divorce-seeking farmer tells court
A farmer, Mr Williams Famuyibo, on Wednesday prayed a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan to dissolve his 32-year-old...
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Court remands man, 36, over alleged murder of girlfriend
An Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday ordered the remand of Mr Hanson Pepple for the alleged murder of...
Court remands man for stealing roofing sheet worth N6,000
A Kano Sharia Court sitting in Fagge, on Wednesday ordered that an 18-year old boy, Aminu Surajo who pleaded guilty...
Court sentences man to 30 years in prison over murder of ex-girlfriend’s son
An Appeal Court on the South Korean Island of Jeju upheld a lower court’s decision and sentenced Baek Kwang-seok to...
Court frees man accused of defiling, impregnating 14-year-old girl
An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Wednesday discharged and acquainted a 53-year-old trader, Sanni Arowolo, accused of defiling and impregnating...
4 Chrisland teachers docked for allegedly concealing sex video
Three male and a female teacher of the Chrisland School Lagos, were on Tuesday docked in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’...
Court jails 4 men for constituting public nuisance
A Dei-dei Grade 1 Area Court sitting in Shagari Quarters, Abuja,sentenced four men to one month in prison for constituting...
Electrician to spend 6 months in jail for cheating
A Grade 1 Area Court in Shagari quarters, Abuja, on Tuesday sentenced a 29-year-old Electrician, Sunday Adebanyo, to six months...
Broadcaster, 40, docked for allegedly sharing Chrisland student sex tape
A 40-year-old broadcaster, Uche Igwe, who allegedly shared on Twitter, video of a 10-year-of Chrisland Schools student, who engaged in...
Man docked for wearing military T-shirt
A man, Victor Memga, was on Monday docked in an Upper Area Court in Makurdi for wearing a military T-shirt....
Couple, 2 others docked over alleged public fighting
The Police on Friday arraigned a 52-year-old man, his wife and two others before a Badagry Magistrates’ Court for allegedly...
2 sisters jailed 5 months each for beating up neighbour
A Kaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Thursday sentenced two sisters, Sarah, 27 and Felicia David, 25, to five months imprisonment...
Oliseh bags life imprisonment for defiling friend’s twins
An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Wednesday sentenced a 54-year-old pastor, Michael Oliseh, to life imprisonment for...
Absence of counsel stalls trial of alleged fake army general
Absence of defence counsel on Friday stalled trial of an alleged fake army general, Bolarinwa Abiodun, charged with impersonation, forgery...
I am a butcher, not an armed robber, man tells court
A 37-year-old man, Tochukwu Nwodo, told an FCT High Court in Kubwa on Friday that he was innocent of the...
My tenants want to drive me to an early grave, landlord tells court
Alhaji Abdulwaheed Akani, an Ibadan-based landlord on Friday, told a Mapo Grade ‘A’ Customary Court in Ibadan that his tenants;...
Man gets 12 strokes of cane for possession of hard drugs
A 27-year-old man, Abdulkadir Usman, was on Friday given 12 strokes of the cane for being in possession of two...
Man jailed 3 months over failure to pay hotel bill
An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Friday sentenced a 28-year-old man, Christiano Mackay-Inler, to three months imprisonment over his failure...
Landlord docked for allegedly locking tenant out of apartment
A 43-year-old landlord, Ayodeji Talabi, on Wednesday appeared before a Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly locking a tenant...
4 in court over alleged illegal electricity connection
The police in Lagos on Monday arraigned four men at an Ojo Magistrates’ Court in Lagos, over alleged illegal re-connection...
