Lagos court frees man after 15 years in prison without trial (Vanguard)
An Ikeja High Court on Monday ordered the release of a man, Kazeen Adeshina, after spending 15 years in a correctional facility without charge or trial.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oyindamola Ogala, while ruling in a fundamental rights enforcement suit marked No: D/16997MFHR/24 filed by Adeshina’s counsel, Mr Ben Okeke, held that detaining of Adeshina in prison without charge or trial was unjustifiable.
Ogala, in her ruling, said the arrest and continued detention of Adeshina in the custody of the Medium Correctional Centre, Kirikiri, Lagos without a trial was wrong, illegal and unjustifiable. Read more
2 men to die by hanging for robbery, rape, murder (ThisDay)
A Delta State High Court at Ibusa, Oshimili North Local Government Area, has convicted and sentenced to death two men, Mr. Ojerbo Solomon and Mr. Ola Babatunde, on charges of armed robbery, rape and murder.
Justice M. O. Omovie presided over the court during the trial.
The prosecution, conducted by Mr. E.H. Edema had, through its five witnesses, led evidence to show that on February 8, 2016, the two defendants, while armed with guns, cutlasses, and knives, broke into the house of the victims. Read more
N30b suspected to be proceeds of crime passed through Mompha’s account – EFCC (Channels)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja that N30 billion suspected to be proceeds of crime passed through the account of suspected internet celebrity, Ismaila Mustapha, popularly known as Mompha.
The EFCC made this disclosure through one Idi Musa, a staff in the Land and Property Fraud Unit of its Lagos office.
Musa testified on Monday before Justice Mojisola Dada. He gave evidence of how Mompha and his company, Ismalob Global Investment Limited were linked to Advance Fee fraud and other fraud related offences. Read more
Stop importing China Adire, students urge FG (DailyTrust)
The National Association of Ogun State Students (NAOSS) has pleaded with the federal government to stop the importation of the China made ‘adire’ fabric, describing it as an economic sabotage.
This followed the lamentation of local traders and producers of the fabric that its importation was pushing the indigenous trade to the brink.
Speaking in Abeokuta, Kehinde Thomas, President of NAOSS, noted that the development was also heightening the unemployment rate in the state. Read more
Lagos-Calabar highway: No further compensation –Umahi (Sun)
After the demolition of structures and compensation of the structure owners, the federal government has admonished the communities along the coastal highway routes not to erect new structures along the route as no compensation will be paid again.
The Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi gave the warning at the stakeholders meeting, yesterday in Calabar.
The minister pleaded for the co-operation of the people of the Cross River State, especially along the coastal highway routes to enable the government of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu deliver legacy projects to them. Read more
UniAbuja: ASUU seeks quick resolution of ongoing strike (Nation)
The Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Abuja chapter, Prof Sylvanus Ugoh has said the union was hopeful of a quick resolution of the ongoing strike following the exit of the former Vice – Chancellor of the institution, Prof Abdulrasheed Na’Allah on Monday.
Ugoh said the strike, which entered 61 days on Monday, would continue until the new management called the union for a peace meeting.
The strike by the university teachers has paralysed academic activities at the institution. Read more
Adelabu dispels explosion claim in Zungeru Power Plant (Tribune)
Minister of Power, Adebayo Adelabu, on Monday, refuted social media reports that an explosion occurred at Zungeru Power Plant in Niger State.
Adelabu stated that the Power Plant is on the grid and is running at full and optimum capacity.
A statement by Bolaji Tunji, Special Adviser, Strategic Communication and Media Relations and made available to Nigerian Tribune, described the report as figment of the imagination of peddlers of such information. Read more
Trucks, passengers stranded on Auchi-Benin highway for over 4 days (Vanguard)
Hundreds of articulated vehicles have been left stranded on the busy Auchi-Benin highway for over four days now owing to the deplorable state of the highway.
The long queue of the stranded vehicles spanned over 10 kilometres from Aviele to Iyamoh axis of the highway.
The Aviele section of the road, like several other parts of the over 140km highway have collapsed. Read more
Floating corpse causes scare in Plateau community (Punch)
A dead human body was found floating in a stream, near Alama community, Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State on Monday.
A resident, John Philip, who spoke to our correspondent said the corpse was stuck on a wood in the middle of the stream with the victim’s head and shoulder afloat while the rest of his body was buried beneath the stream.
Philip disclosed that the attention of other residents of the community was drawn to the floating dead body by some women working close to the stream. Read more
Woman with sickle cell disease celebrates 80th birthday, defying life expectancy odds by decades (NBC)
When Patricia McGill was 13 and learning that she had inherited sickle cell disease, she did not think she would reach 30.
But now she and her family are celebrating McGill’s 80th year.
McGill is one of the nation’s oldest people with sickle cell disease, living decades past age 52, the life expectancy of someone with the disease, which has a disproportionate effect on Black people. Read more
Trump seeks to set aside hush-money verdict hours after immunity ruling (Guardian)
Donald Trump’s lawyers on Monday asked the New York judge who presided over his hush-money trial to set aside his conviction and delay his sentencing, scheduled for later this month.
The letter to Judge Juan M Merchan cited the US supreme court’s ruling earlier Monday and asked the judge to delay the former president’s sentencing while he weighs the high court’s decision and how it could influence the New York case, according to the letter obtained by the Associated Press.
The lawyers argue that the supreme court’s decision confirmed a position the defense raised earlier in the case that prosecutors should have been precluded from introducing some evidence they said constituted official presidential acts, according to the letter. Read more
Son of former NFL player missing after ‘domestic battery allegations’ at his home: Police (People)
Police in Indiana are still searching for the 14-year-old son of former NFL player Daniel Muir.
Indiana State Police said in a press release Muir’s son Bryson was last seen on Sunday, June 16, leaving a family member’s home in Ohio with his mother Kristen.
Police said shortly after leaving the home, officers with the Garfield Heights Police Department pulled over his mother, but Bryson was not inside the vehicle. Read more
Concerns as India replaces colonial-era laws with new criminal codes (AlJazeera)
Opposition parties and lawyers in India are raising concerns over the government replacing colonial-era criminal laws with new legislation, saying the move risks throwing the criminal justice system into disarray.
India on Monday implemented an overhaul of the criminal laws, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government said would make the country more just.
The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 has replaced the Indian Penal Code, 1860; the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam, 2023 replaces the Indian Evidence Act, 1872; and the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been implemented in place of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1882. Read more
Israel releases 55 Palestinians it had detained from Gaza (AfricaNews)
Israel released the director of Gaza’s main hospital on Monday, seven months after the military raided the facility over allegations it was being used as a Hamas command center.
The release of Mohammed Abu Selmia without charge or trial raised further questions about Israel’s allegations regarding Shifa Hospital, which its forces have raided on two occasions since the start of its nearly nine-month war with Hamas.
Abu Selmia said he and other prisoners had been tortured and held under harsh conditions, allegations that could not be independently confirmed but matched other accounts of Palestinian detainees who have been released back into Gaza. Read more
Kanye West & wife accused of racism, exposing minors to porn in explosive new lawsuit (HipHopDx)
Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori are facing shocking accusations of racism and exposing minors to pornography in a new lawsuit.
According to The Washington Post, Ye is being sued by eight former Yeezy employees who worked on YZYVSN, a streaming service designed to host his upcoming Vultures 2 album with Ty Dolla $ign.
The suit claims that the rap legend, his former chief of staff Milo Yiannopolous and his Yeezy company cultivated a racist environment with brutal working conditions, and failed to pay several members of staff despite promising to do so. Read more
Mum bugged ex’s car, redirected mail and smeared him as benefit cheat for extra child support (Mirror)
Veronica Jackson was trying to prove Kevin McCormack had a job and should pay more than £6.25 a week in child support for their 12 year old daughter
A businesswoman bugged the father of her child’s car, redirected his mail and smeared him as a benefit cheat in a bid to get extra child support, a court has heard.
During a DIY reconnaissance mission Veronica Jackson secretly placed a Safe Tag tracker on jobless Kevin McCormack’s vehicle and diverted his letters to a drop-off location, in a bid to prove to the Child Support Agency he had a job and could afford maintenance of £200 a month. He claimed he was only able to give £6.25 a week to help with the upkeep of the couple’s 12-year-old daughter. Read more
Lookman wins Africa’s Best Player award in Ghana (CompleteSports)
Atalanta star Ademola Lookman has been named Africa’s Best International Footballer at the Ghana Football Awards.
Lookman beat his compatriot Victor Osimhen and Burkina Faso defender Edmund Tapsoba to the award.
The 26-year-old starred for Nigeria at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
The former RB Leipzig player scored thrice in seven matches for the Super Eagles in Cote d’Ivoire. Read more
Rivers United clear air on Finidi, Amapakabo rumours (Punch)
Nigeria Premier Football League side Rivers United have denied reports linking former Enyimba and Super Eagles coach Finidi George as well as ex-Rangers coach Imama Amapakabo to the club, PUNCH Sports Extra reports.
Following the dismissal of long-serving coach Stanley Eguma last season, the 2022 NPFL champions were guided until the end of the season by head coach Evans Ogenyi, but rumours about Finidi and Amapakabo taking charge at the Port Harcourt side have been rife recently.
In the wake of the speculations, as well as other rumours revolving around the transfer of some of their players, media officer of the team, Charles Mayuku, described the reports as “baseless.” Read more
Carlos Alcaraz’s first step shows he’s ready for tennis immortality at Wimbledon (Independent)
Carlos Alcaraz’s summer won’t be defined by a first-round win at Wimbledon over Mark Lajal but it may prove instructive as he attempts a feat only ever accomplished by tennis royalty.
Any list comprising solely of Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic is one worth being on and, at the age of just 21, Alcaraz is aiming to join them as the only men to win the French Open and Wimbledon in the same year. On the evidence of this opening salvo in the first match on Centre Court at Wimbledon 2024, he is ready to complete the “Channel slam”.
There may be only so much you can read into a straight-sets win over the world No 262 making his grand slam main-draw debut, but the final scoreline of 7-6, 7-5, 6-2 in two hours and 23 minutes gives some indication that this wasn’t a bog-standard first-round triumph. That had almost nothing to do with Alcaraz and everything to do with Lajal. Read more
SZA shows Simone Biles her gymnastic skills (UPI)
Before she was a Grammy-winning singer, SZA had dreams of becoming a gymnast, she told Olympic medalist Simone Biles in a video released by NBC Sports on Monday.
“This is my dream to talk to you,” SZA said as the pair sat in an empty gymnasium. “I’m not even kidding. You’re like my wildest dream…I just have never seen anything like you. No one has.”
Biles, 27, then invited SZA, 34, to a handstand contest with one important stipulation: “You can’t break a nail. You can’t hurt yourself.” Read more
Paul Pogba watches France vs Belgium at Euro 2024 as he serves ban from football (Metro)
Paul Pogba made a rare appearance as he watched his former France teammates in their Euro 2024 last-16 tie against Belgium on Monday.
The former Manchester United midfielder is currently serving a four-year ban from football after testing positive for a banned substance nearly 11 months ago.
Pogba, who plans to appeal the ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), tested positive for Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), a compound that promotes the production of hormones in the body, including testosterone, following Juventus’ 3-0 win over Udinese in Serie A last August. Read more
Raducanu credits England after ‘winning ugly’ at Wimbledon (BBC)
Emma Raducanu says “winning ugly” on her Wimbledon return was all that mattered as she came through a testing first-round battle against Mexican lucky loser Renata Zarazua.
The 21-year-old Briton, who missed last year’s tournament through injury, claimed a 7-6 (7-0) 6-3 victory on Centre Court.
Raducanu said she used England’s dramatic 2-1 comeback win over Slovakia in Sunday’s Euro 2024 last-16 tie as “motivation” to find a way past Zarazua on Monday. Read more