By Peter Duru – Makurdi A lecturer at the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo Mr. Andrew Ogbuja who was fingered in the alleged rape of late Ochanya Ogbanje is to open his defense in a Makurdi High Court on October 8, 2021 in the criminal case preferred against him by the Benue state government. The state […]

A 43-year-old woman, Sharon Williams, on Thursday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’s Court for allegedly assaulting an eight-year-old boy with a cutlass. The police charged Williams, who resides in Igberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, with three counts bordering on grievous harm and assault occasioning harm. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Kehinde Ajayi, told the court that […]

A Magistrates’ Court in Abeokuta, on Wednesday, sentenced a 25-year-old man, Olasunkanmi Soyobi, to one year imprisonment for assaulting a police officer and attempting to escape from police custody. Soyobi, of no fixed address, was convicted on a three-count charge of assault and attempt to escape from police custody. In his judgment, Magistrate Dehinde Dipeolu […]

Justice Okon who described confessional statement as the best evidence, even better than eyewitness account, held that such confessional statement could be relied on solely to convict the accused.

By Dapo Akinrefon The Ogun State government has ordered the contractor handling the Mowe-Ofada road reconstruction in Obafemi-Owode Local Government back to site. Contract for the reconstruction of the eight kilometers road was awarded by the immediate past administration of Governor Ibikunle Amosun in 2013. However, the road was abandoned by the contractor, CSCC in […]