Controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly known as Bobrisky, has regained freedom from the Kirikiri Correctional Centre, after spending six months in incarceration for abusing the naira by spraying it at parties. Recall that Bobrisky was sentenced to six months imprisonment…
Court sentences man to 3-month jail term for breach of trust
A 50-year-old man, Mr Brendan Chima Okpara has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by an Abuja Chief Magistrates’ Court in Wuse, Zone 6 over charges bordering on breach of trust and cheating. Okpara, a resident of Open Gates Estate,…
Pakistan former PM Imran Khan jailed for leaking state secrets
Former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 years in jail in a case in which he was accused of leaking state secrets. Mr Khan, who was ousted by his opponents as PM in 2022, is already…
Court sentences man to death for murder (Guardian)
An Osun State high court sitting in Osogbo, the state capital, on Thursday, sentenced a middle-aged man, Sunday Palms, to death by hanging for murder. The convict was arraigned on December 8, 2014, on a one-count charge of murder, a…
Man gets 14 years in prison for chopping off wife’s hands (Guardian)
A Russian man, who chopped off both of his wife’s hands with an axe after accusing her of infidelity, was sentenced on Thursday to fourteen years in prison following a huge outcry in Russia. Last December, after dropping off their…
Man to die by hanging for killing father (Punch)
A Jos Court of Appeal on Tuesday sentenced a middle-aged man, Jibril Idrisa, to death by hanging for killing his aged father over N56,000, being proceeds from the sale of Guinea Corn. Delivering judgment, Justice Habib Abima, overturned the judgment…
