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Justice T.G Ringim of Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, Imo State has sent one Chikere Felix Ibeawuchi to prison over land fraud worth over five million naira. Ibeawuchi was arraigned before the court by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC on one count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N5,500.000, (Five Million, Five ...

Three other persons have been arraigned for assaulting officials of the Enugu Electricity Distribution PLC (EEDC). This was confirmed in a statement issued by the Head of Communications, EEDC, Mr. Emeka Ezeh. One of the suspects, 37-year-old man identified as Chibuzor Obidinma, an indigene of Ezinifite, Okpuno in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State was arraigned before the ...

An Ebute-Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, has sentenced a property developer, Alhaji Ayobami Oseni, to 2,670 years imprisonment for duping 133 accommodation seekers of N25 million. Chief Magistrate O. O. Olatunji convicted Oseni following his plea of guilty to 267 counts of conspiracy, obtaining under false pretenses and stealing. He sentenced Oseni to 10 years imprisonment with no option of ...

“An Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday, sentenced a teenager, Muyideen Nasiru, to 39 months imprisonment for stealing church’s property– aluminum frames and other items worth N500,000 from a church.” – The Nation The magistrate, Mrs. O.K. Omotosho, sentenced Nasiru after he pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, break-in and stealing. Omotosho said the convict should spend his ...

“Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), says a prison prison in Sambisa forest, a stronghold of the Boko Haram sect in Borno state for corrupt persons should be established .”- PM News Magu made this known while speaking at the commissioning of the agency’s zonal office in Kaduna on Thursday. He also appealed to ...

“A cross section of elders and youths of Okwu, Umuoma in Nekede Autonomous community of Owerri west Local Government Area in Imo state, have expressed joy that after years of abandonment,  the Nigeria Prison Service, NPS, has commenced work on their site.” – Vanguard Vanguard visited the area yesterday and discovered that clearing and carting away of unwanted trees in ...