LAGOS — A High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly called Evans, and two others to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The presiding judge, Justice Hakeem Oshodi found Evans, Uche Amadi, and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu guilty of a two-count charge of kidnapping the Managing Director of Maydon Pharmaceuticals Limited, Donatus Dunu. Handing down the sentence, Justice Oshodi noted the allocutors of the defence counsels, Olarewaju...

DAMATURU, (YOBE) — The Chief Judge of Yobe State, Justice Gumna Kashim Kaigama has warned Magistrates and Sharia Court Alkalis against engaging in corrupt practices and other misconducts while discharging their official duties. Justice Kaigama gave the warning at the swearing-in of the newly appointed Chief Registrar of the High Court of Justice, 14 Magistrates, and 22 Sharia Court Alkalis held at the headquarters of the High Court in Damaturu, the state capital. “I need...

BADAGRY — A 44-year-old woman, Banke Amosu, was on Monday docked before a Badagry Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State, for allegedly defrauding her business partner of 132 bags of cassava flakes popularly called `garri’ valued N1,889,000. Amosu, whose address was not disclosed in court, is facing a two-count charge of fraud and stealing. The prosecutor, ASP. Clément Okuoimose, told the court that the defendant committed the offences between Jan. 27 and Feb. 6, at Osun-Adura...