The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has said that the arrest warrant issued against the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello could be set aside if he were to show up in court as required. EFCC counsel, Kemi…
‘My mother-in-law ordered my husband to throw me out, got him another wife’
A woman of Ndola, Zambia, has narrated in court how her mother-in-law scolds her whenever she has an argument with her husband. In this case, Juliet Mwembe sued Bonnie Kabaila, a resident of Twapia Township, for divorce. Juliet told the…
Kiribati court rules suspended Australian judge cannot be deported
A Kiribati court has ruled that a High Court judge in the Pacific Island nation who has been suspended by the president cannot be deported to Australia where he was born until parliament considers the findings of a tribunal examining…
Father sentenced for injecting mercury into his daughter’s foot
A court in Germany on Wednesday sentenced a 30-year-old man to 13 years in prison for attempted murder for injecting mercury into his 1-year-old daughter’s foot. The man’s girlfriend was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking part in…
Woman jailed for 7 years for handing over girl, 3, for female genital mutilation
A British woman has been jailed for seven years in a legal first after she was found guilty of handing over a three-year-old who was subjected to female genital mutilation. Amina Noor, 40, took the toddler, who cannot be named…
Pregnant woman arrested for killing mother over plantain in Rivers
The Rivers State Police Command has arrested a pregnant woman identified as Blessing Godday for allegedly stabbing another woman, Mrs Imeran Idema, to death over a bunch of plantain allegedly stolen by the former in Adada community in the Abua/Odual…
Hong Kong court orders China’s Evergrande, which owes $300b, to liquidate
A Hong Kong court ordered China Evergrande, the world’s most heavily indebted real estate developer, to undergo liquidation following a failed effort to restructure $300 billion owed to banks and bondholders that fueled fears about China’s rising debt burden. Judge…
Russian court jails woman for 27 years over killing of pro-Kremlin blogger
A Russian court has sentenced antiwar activist Darya Trepova to 27 years in prison for killing a prominent ultra-nationalist blogger in an attack that Moscow said was orchestrated by Ukraine. In April last year, Vladlen Tatarsky was killed in a…
Court sentences man to life imprisonment for sexual assault on his 3 children
A Lagos High Court has sentenced Samuel Ademola Oladimeji to life imprisonment for the sexual assault by penetration on his three children. The ruling was delivered by Justice Abiola Sholadoye of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja. Justice Sholadoye,…
Man arraigned for fraud, 3 arrested for armed robbery, Police arrest traffic robbers and more
What is a city without crime? thisislagos descends into the Lagos underground to search out the baddest guys committing the craziest crimes in LasGidi. Man arraigned for alleged N20m fraud in Lagos (Punch) A 47-year-old man, Erivona Yoma, was arraigned…
