Tag: Jail
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COVID-19: Three men jailed for breaching quarantine orders
Three men were sentenced to imprisonment on Monday for violating Hong Kong’s compulsory quarantine measures. A 31-year-old man was given a three-month custodial sentence for giving regulatory officials a false residential address. Meanwhile a 37-year-old and a 41-year-old violated the restrictions by leaving their places of residence. Both were intercepted at border-control points between Hong…
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Nigerian email fraud syndicate jailed in UK [Full Identities Attached]
Some Nigerians, part of a criminal gang, have been convicted and jailed for a combined total of 18 years and 2 months after gaining access to as many as 2,000 BT customers’ accounts in an elaborate phone and email divert scam. The convicts who were busted after a complex investigation which spanned more than two…
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45-year-old jailed for stealing Oyo Govt.’s Christmas decoration
An Iwo Road Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, on Tuesday, sentenced a 45-year-old scavenger, Kamorudeen Salau, to a 30-working day jail term for stealing Christmas decoration worth N25,000, property of Oyo State Government. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Taiwo Oladiran, in his judgment, said that the defendant was found guilty as charged. Oladiran, who said that…
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Buhari will send more looters to jail – APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that the President Muhammadu Buhari led APC government in the country was working hard to send more looters of the nation’s commonwealth to jail and recover the wealth illegally acquired from them. The party also said that the government was working in collaboration with the international community especially…
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73 year-old Nigerian Nanny jailed in U.S. for killing baby
Oluremi Adeleye, a 73 nanny convicted of murder in the U.S. for force-feeding a baby milk has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. According to Washington Post, the septuagenarian was found guilty of child abuse and second-degree murder by Prince George’s County Circuit Court, Judge Karen Mason. “While I don’t find the defendant is…
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JUST IN: 10 Nigerians escape from Indian jail
Ten yet-to-be identified Nigerians detained in a prison in Noida, Uttar Pradesh in India have escaped from jail. Reports, according to India’s Business Standard, said the Nigerians who were detained by Gautam Buddh Nagar police broke jail on Thursday. However, some of them have been recaptured. Additional Director General of Police of Meerut zone, said…