Five terrorists put on trial at the Federal High Court in Abuja by the Department of the State Service, DSS, have been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment each for their complicity in attacks in...
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Court sentences former NEXIM bank MD to prison for corruption
News Update A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced Robert Orya, the former Managing Director of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), to a cumulative 490 years in prison. The...
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Igboho breaks down over prison experience
Prominent Yoruba nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, a.k.a. Igboho, on Monday broke down in tears while recounting his ordeal in prison custody in Cotonou, Republic of Benin. Igboho, during a thank-you visit to the...
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Tears As 52 Arrested AAU Students Remanded In Prison For Protesting
A Benin High Court on Monday ordered the remand of 52 persons, including students of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, at the Ubiaja Correctional Centre on allegations of armed robbery and willful destruction of property....
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Kanu’s Bid to Leave Sokoto Prison Hit with Setback
The Federal High Court in Abuja has turned down the request of Biafra nation agitator, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking transfer from Sokoto prison to either Kuje prison in the Federal Capital Territory or Keffi prison...
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Actor Baba Ijesha freed
Nollywood actor Olanrewaju Omiyinka, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has been released from prison after spending more than three years in custody over allegations of sexual assault. The actor regained his freedom on Friday,...
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Sakozy seeks mercy, says prison life is very hard
Former French President, Nicolas Sarkozy’s request to be released from jail pending appeal was heard by a Paris court on Monday, less than three weeks after the ex-head of state began serving a five-year...
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Nnamdi Kanu’s Brother, Lawyer, 10 Others Land in Prison
News Update A magistrate’s court in Kuje, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has remanded Prince Emeka Kalu and Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, and 10 others in Kuje prison. They were charged with inciting disturbance and breach...
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Jubilation as CJ frees 35 Inmates from prison
The Chief Judge of the Federal Capital Territory, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, during the decongestion of custodial centres in Nasarawa State on Tuesday, September 23, 2025. | Credit: Collins Agwam. The Chief Judge of the...
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Simon Ekpa sentenced to prison for terrorism
News Update THE Päijät-Häme District Court has stated that Simon Ekpa was guilty of encouraging crimes with terrorist intent, aiding a terrorist organization, engaging in aggravated tax fraud, and breaching the Attorneys Act. The...
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