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A High Court in Lagos on Wednesday sentenced a labourer, Chinedu Alli to life imprisonment for killing another construction worker during a fight at a construction site at Aja, Lagos. Delivering judgment, Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay, held that the prosecution had proven its case with the elements of the offence of manslaughter and that strong circumstantial evidence was presented in court. ...

37-year-old Nurudeen Bakare has stabbed his mother, Bosede Bakare, to death after an argument over his inherited property. Bakare has been arrested and charged to court following the death of his biological mother after he stabbed her. How it happened according to the prosecutor The prosecutor, Sergeant Modupe Olaluwoye, told a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos how Bakare killed ...

“The Lagos State government yesterday arraigned the Managing Director of Lekki Gardens Estate Limited, Mr. Richard Nyong, before a Lagos High Court in Igbosere over alleged complicity in the events leading to the collapse of a building in Lekki area of the state on March 10, 2016.”- The Guardian Nyong was arraigned alongside others before Justice Sybil Nwaka over alleged ...