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USA – A man sentenced to 400 years in prison in a 1988 armed robbery in Broward has been set free after more than 34 years behind bars. Sidney Holmes, now 57, was released from prison Monday, March 13, 2023, following a request from the Broward State Attorney’s Office Conviction …

SOUTH AFRICA – The Pretoria Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a Nigerian, Onyeghani Ekene Dumkele, to life imprisonment for the murder of a multi-talented up-and-coming South African singer, Shaun Douglas Chabalala. Chabalala, who was also an actor and dancer, was found dead in his apartment in Pretoria West in August 2019. …

BY OMAJEMITE DON ASABA – The Delta Indigenes Initiative for Good Leadership (DIIGL), a political and human rights group based in Delta State, has asked Nigerians to stop burning down Banks and asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and Bank Managers to make the new naira notes available to …

LAGOS – The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank, Mrs. Nneka Chinwe Onyeali-Ikpe on Monday, February 6, 2023 sent to six weeks imprisonment over disobedience of a garnishee order of court restraining the Bank from allowing a judgment debtor access to his account. According to Magistrate Lateef …

RIVERS STATE – A middle-aged man identified as Baby Face has been reported to have strangled his lover and set himself ablaze at the Kom Kom area of Oyigbo in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. According to the report Baby Face had interrogated his girlfriend and demanded explanation …

LAGOS – An Investigative Police Officer, IPO, Insp. Israel Ojo, on Monday, January 16, 2023, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how a Nollywood actor, Temitayo Phillips Ogunbusola, allegedly stabbed his neighbour, Oladotun Osho, to death over a N1,000 electricity bill. It would be recalled that the 32-year-old actor is …

…Says, “Former CBN Governor, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi Was Equally Accused Of Terrorism Financing And Arrested” LAGOS – The Human Rights Lawyer Femi Falana (SAN), has urged the Department of State Security (DSS) to arrest Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), as soon as he returns …

LAGOS – The United States government has said, the All Progressive Congress (APC) Presidential candidate in the coming General elections in Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu was neither involved nor convicted for criminal drug dealing in the US, falsifying reports amplified by his political opponents who are recycling an unsuccessful …

LAGOS – The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has taken over the assets of Borini Prono (Nig) Ltd in execution of an N831,024,818.30 judgment debt of the Federal High Court in Lagos. Sheriffs of the court, protected by armed policemen, executed the judgment at Borini Prono’s offices in Lagos in …

PORT-HARCOURT – Justice A.T. Mohammed of the Federal High Court, sitting in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State on Tuesday, October 11, 2022, sentenced a former staff of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), Emeka Okafor, to one year imprisonment, for forgery and uttering of documents. Okafor was jailed after pleading guilty to a …