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  • Eight jailed for open defecation, urination in Lagos

    Eight jailed for open defecation, urination in Lagos

    A Magistrate Court sitting in Bolade, Oshodi, has sentenced eight individuals to one month imprisonment for engaging in open defecation and urination in Lagos.

    The offenders were arraigned before Magistrate Oshikoya of the Special Offences (Mobile Court) on Friday, where they all pleaded guilty to the charges.

    According to a statement by the Lagos State Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources, the convicted individuals, aged between 18 and 45, were sentenced to serve as a deterrent to others who may contemplate similar environmental violations.

    The conviction follows an earlier case on June 26, when officials of the Lagos Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC), also known as KAI, arrested and arraigned eight individuals for public urination and breach of peace in the Yaba area.

    The Corps Marshal of LAGESC, Major Olaniyi Cole (rtd), said the suspects were charged before Magistrate Oshikoya for offences punishable under Section 168 (1)(d) of the Lagos State Criminal Law, 2015, and Section 5(1) of the Public Health Law, 2015.

    He added that the judgment served as a strong warning to potential offenders, reinforcing the government’s zero-tolerance stance on public indecency.

    ‘‘As the premier enforcement Agency in the State with operatives spread across the five divisions in the State, we must not allow public indecency such as open urination and defecation to fester undeterred and this daily monitoring of Lagos environs lead to the arraignment and prosecution of eight offenders in the same vein and we remain unshaken,” he said in a statement.

    Similarly, on June 16, thirteen individuals were sentenced to three months imprisonment for open defecation and urination in the Agege and Alimosho areas of the state.

  • Labourer sentenced to 10 months jail term for theft

    Labourer sentenced to 10 months jail term for theft

    AKaduna Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday sentenced a 26-year-old labourer, Friday Joseph, to 10 months imprisonment for stealing N250,000.

    The Magistrate, Ibrahim Emmanuel, sentenced Joseph after he pleaded guilty to a three-count charge of conspiracy, breaking-in and theft.

    Delivering judgment, Emmanuel, gave Joseph an option of fine of N30,000.

    He also ordered the convict to pay N40,000 as compensation to the nominal complainant for expenses.

    Earlier, the Prosecutor, Insp Chidi Leo, told the court that the case was reported on Sept. 20 at the Gabasawa Police station by Vincent Nathan, the complainant.

    Leo said that the convict with two others, still at large, conspired and broke into the complainant’s house and stole N250 000 and two phones valued at N210,000.

    He said that the convict was arrested when the complainant raised an alarm while his accomplice ran away.

    The prosecutor said that the offence was punishable under the provisions of sections 59, 336 and 217 of the Kaduna Penal Code, 2017.

  • 18-year-old motor boy allegedly removes passenger’s teeth over N100 change

    18-year-old motor boy allegedly removes passenger’s teeth over N100 change

    An 18-year-old motor boy on Thursday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly beating up one of the bus passenger and removing two of his teeth.

    The defendant, Azeez Balogun, whose address was not stated, is charged with assault.

    The prosecutor, ASP Raji Akeem, told the court that the offences were committed on June 24, at Ile – Epo Bus Stop, Abule Egba Road, Lagos.

    Akeem said that the complainant, Mr Shina Olarewaju, boarded a Lagos commercial bus from Ile Epo to Abule Egba and an argument ensued over N100.00 (One hundred naira ) change.

    The prosecutor said that the defendant dragged the complainant down, beat him up and removed two of his teeth.

    Akeem said that the defendant also tore the complainant’s  clothes.

    The offence, according to the prosecutor, contravenes section 173 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Bola Osunsanmi, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N20,000, with two sureties in like sum.

    Osunsanmi adjourned the case until Aug. 8, for mention.

  • Tragic! 22-Year-Old Man Remanded for Allegedly Stabbing Mother to Death in Kano

    Tragic! 22-Year-Old Man Remanded for Allegedly Stabbing Mother to Death in Kano

    A 22-year-old man, Ibrahim Musa, has been remanded in a correction center following the alleged killing of his 50-year-old mother, Hajara Mohammed.

    The Senior Magistrates’ Court in Kano issued the order for his remand after he was charged with culpable homicide.

    During the court proceedings, the Prosecution Counsel, Rabi’a Sa’ad, stated that the defendant committed the offense on May 3 in Rimin Kebe Quarters, Kano.

    According to the prosecution, on that day at approximately 6 p.m., Musa used a sharp knife to stab his mother, causing multiple injuries on different parts of her body.

    Hajara was immediately rushed to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, where a medical doctor confirmed her death.

    Despite the charges against him, the defendant pleaded not guilty, but the police have stated that Musa’s actions are in violation of Section 221 of the Penal Code.

    In light of the circumstances, Senior Magistrate Ibrahim Almustafa-Kofarmata ordered that the case file be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice and adjourned the case until June 27.

  • Ondo monarch jailed 10 years for felony

    Ondo monarch jailed 10 years for felony

    A magistrate court sitting in Akure has sentenced Ajagun Ode of Ode in Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State, Oba Sunday Boboye to 10 years in prison.

    The monarch was jailed for the illegal destruction of food crops and palm trees in his community.

    He was found guilty of the six counts of felony with malicious damage and wanton destruction of farmland thereby causing a shortage of food supply.

    After hearing his case Magistrate Bukola Ojo found him guilty of felony and other charges and subsequently sentenced him to 10 years in Jail.

    While informing the court of the case’s facts, the prosecutor, Sergeant Ajiboye Babatunde, claimed that on September 20, 2022, at around 3 p.m., at the “Pastorate and Laity of the Apostolic Church Nigeria, along Ado Ekiti Road Igoba, Akure North, the pastor and others at large conspired to commit Felony to wit: Malicious damage.”

    The Pastorate and Laity of the church’s perimeter fence, worth about N1 million, as well as palm trees and food crops, worth about N5 million, were said to have been illegally destroyed by the defendant.

    Babatunde also claimed that the convict failed to provide a satisfactory explanation to the police after being apprehended.

    Sections 516, 451, 249(d), and 81 of the Criminal Code Cap. 7 vol. 1, Laws of Ondo State of Nigeria 2006, according to the prosecutor, were violated by the offense.

    In order to serve as a deterrent to those who might engage in a similar behaviour, the prosecutor requested that the court punish him appropriately and called four witnesses to testify in court.

    The court awarded the sum of N5 million naira as compensation to the complainant for the damage of the perimeter fence, palm trees and other crops.

    Magistrate Ojo, however, ruled that if the convict could afford to pay the compensation, the imprisonment should be vacated.

  • Woman remanded for luring teenagers into prostitution in Anambra

    Woman remanded for luring teenagers into prostitution in Anambra

    Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka has remanded a Delta State-based woman, identified simply as Madam Success, has been remanded in Anambra State for her alleged role in luring 13 and 15 years female students into prostitution in her state.

    Madam Success was on Friday was denied bail and also remanded.

    The victims, four female students (names withheld), were said to have been lured by Madam Success from Akwa Ibom State to Agbor in Delta State, after initially deceiving them with employment offers.

    The female students aged between 13 and 15 years, were said to have been promised job offers as sales girls in Delta by Madam Success but were allegedly put in a brothel and made to sleep with at least five men a day.

    However, the Anambra State Commissioner for Women and Children’s Welfare, Mrs Ify Obinabo, reportedly rescued the four female students in Onitsha, from where their trafficker had camped them en route Delta. The trafficker was also arrested, TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) gathered.

    The media assistant to Obinabo, Chidimma Ikeanyionwu, told journalists that the commissioner, working with men of the Nigeria Police, stormed a motor park in Onitsha on a tip-off, and rescued the girls while also arrested the trafficker in the process of their boarding a bus to Delta State.

    Ikeanyionwu, in a press statement, disclosed that Madam Success was on Friday arraigned before the Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Magistrate Court in Awka, where she was denied bail and also remanded.

    The female students, while narrating their experiences to newsmen, stated that the woman socialite had promised them employment offers.

    “Auntie Success told us that she has a job opportunity for us in Agbor, Delta State, where we will be selling drinks in a beer parlour, but on getting there, we discovered that it was prostitution work they brought us to do,” the students said.

    They spoke further, “The men pay the sum of N1,000 or N2,000 directly to our madam, who only give us N400 every day for feeding. The direct payment to Madam Success made it difficult for us to have any cash at hand.

    “These dresses (skimpy clothes) were bought for us from the proceeds which people pay to our madam.”

    The girls who claimed that it was in their quest to secure their school fees that they got lured into the act maintained that they had made several unsuccessful attempts to escape but were always caught and punished severely.

    “After the punishment, we were taken to a herbalist who forced us to take an oath that we would never run away or we would die,” they narrated.

    The Police Public Relations Officer for Delta State Command, DSP Bright Edafe, could not be reached for comments on the incident as of the time of filing this report.

  • Oyo Motor park chairman, Auxiliary arraigned in court for destroying APC posters

    Oyo Motor park chairman, Auxiliary arraigned in court for destroying APC posters

    Alhaji Mukaila Lamidi, popularly known as Auxiliary has been arraigned before a Chief Magistrate’s Court in Ibadan for infringement of rights.

    The Oyo state motor park chairman was arraigned in court for destroying Tinubu’s posters in Ibadan the Oyo state capital.

    The police arraigned him before the court presided over by Chief Magistrate Taiwo Oladiran on charges of conspiracy, wilful and unlawful damage.

    The police prosecutor, AS Sunday Fatola, told the court that Lamidi and others at large on November 13, 2022, around 6.50pm at Igboora in Ibarapa zone of the state, conspired and willfully destroyed billboards bearing the pictures of the 2023 presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu; the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Senator Teslim Folarin, and a House of Representatives candidate.

    Auxillary’s group was also alleged to have destroyed destroyed billboards at Omi-Adio and persons regarded as opposition in the state on November 13, 2022 .

    Auxilliary pleaded not guilty to the charges levelled against him and his group.

    The Chief Magistrate, Oladiran, granted him bail in the sum of N500,000 with two sureties in like sum.

    The magistrate then adjourned the case till February 2 2023 to resume hearing on the matter.

     

  • Court frees rap artiste, Ice Prince Zamani

    Court frees rap artiste, Ice Prince Zamani

    Nigerian rap artiste, Panshak Henry Zamani, popularly known as Ice Prince Zamani, has regained his freedom weeks after being imprisoned for assaulting a police officer.

    Ice Prince was remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for allegedly abducting an officer when he was stopped at about 3 am for driving without license plates.

    Although Ice Prince pleaded not guilty when the charges were read to him at the Magistrate Court in Ajah, Lagos State, the magistrate ruled that he should be remanded.

    However, Magistrate Taiwo Oyaniyi has now granted him bail in the sum of N500,000 and demanded the provision of two sureties.

    Ice Prince was released after fulfilling his bail conditions on Thursday.

    The Jos-born artiste immediately took to Twitter to announce his release

    Ice Prince tweet reads, “Freedom is priceless.”

    Ice Prince Zamani or just ‘Ice Prince, is a Nigerian hip hop recording artist and actor. He rose to fame after releasing “Oleku”, one of Nigeria’s most remixed songs of all time. He won the 2009 Hennessy Artistry Club Tour.

  • Court remands man in prison for allegedly hacking two-year-old boy

    Court remands man in prison for allegedly hacking two-year-old boy

    An Ilorin Magistrate’s Court in Kwara State has remanded a 32-year-old commercial driver, Idowu Ali, in the Oke-Kura Custodial Centre, for allegedly hacking a two-year-old boy, Godwin Ifeanyi, following a dispute with parents of the deceased.

     

    The accused was charged over offences bordering on criminal trespass, causing of grievous harm and attempted culpable homicide.

     

    The offences, according to the prosecution, are punishable under sections 348, 248 and 229 of the Penal Code Law of Kwara State.

     

    A First Information Report said, “On June 14, 2022, around 2.16pm, the case was transferred from the divisional police headquarters ‘C’ Division, Oja Oba, Ilorin, Kwara State, to the Criminal Investigation Department for discreet investigation.

     

    “That on June 8, at 10am, one Emmanuel Ifeanyi, reported at the ‘C’ Division Police Station, Ilorin, that on June 7, 2022, around 11.15pm, he was with his family sleeping at the corridor of his house, which is upstairs, when suddenly one Idowu Ali, climbed upstairs to challenge him over a domestic matter and left in anger, only to return a few minutes after with a cutlass in his hand and forcefully kicked the door of his house open and with the cutlass in his hand, approached him and his family.

     

    “The said Idowu Ali, who aimed to behead Godwin Ifeanyi, the complainant’s son, incidentally cut the leg and almost severed the leg from the ankle of Godwin Ifeanyi, aged two and half years old, who was sleeping on the floor.

     

    “Emmanuel Ifeanyi further stated that while he was trying to collect the cutlass from the said Idowu Ali to prevent him from further harming his family members, Idowu Ali used the cutlass to attack him and cut his right thumb. Immediate police action led to the arrest of Idowu Ali.

     

    “Investigation conducted at the CID, Ilorin, revealed that the genesis of this incident was that the son of Idowu Ali, Alameen, 10, was beating one Munachi, the son of Emmanuel Ifeanyi, and this degenerated into a misunderstanding between both parents.

     

    “During a discreet investigation, you, Idowu Ali, confessed that your wife called you on phone that Emmanuel Ifeanyi, popularly called Baba Ibo, and his wife were beating her and you told your wife to wait till you return from work in the evening.

     

    “When you returned from work in the night, you forcefully trespassed and kicked the door of Emmanuel Ifeanyi, aka Baba Ibo’s house open, and challenged him as to why he and his wife beat your wife and that Baba Ibo pushed you, which made you return to your house to pick your cutlass and went back to Baba Ibo’s house with the cutlass and severed Godwin Ifeanyi’s right leg from the ankle.”

     

    When the case first came to the court for hearing on June 17, 2022, lawyer to the defendant, G. T. Olumo, filed a motion seeking the release of the accused person on bail.

     

    However, the magistrate, Mr I.A. Dasuki, demanded the condition of the child, who was admitted to a hospital.

     

    Counsel for the victim’s family, Onwa Ifeanyi, said parents of the victim had been approaching individuals and the Igbo community for financial support to treat their child.

     

    The counsel said the state Ministry of Justice had also filed a charge against the accused before the state High Court.

     

    The court adjourned the matter till August 29, 2022, for hearing.

  • Unknown arsonists raze Idemili LG Secretariat, Magistrate court, Others In Anambra

    Unknown arsonists raze Idemili LG Secretariat, Magistrate court, Others In Anambra

    The Magistrate court and other buildings in the premises where the secretariat of Idemili Local Government Area in Ogidi, Anambra state is situated have been razed by unknown arsonists.

    Eyewitness account said that the incident happened on Sunday night as the hoodlums destroyed files and properties in the secretariat, including the secretariat building.

    While the entire buildings were left in ruins, vehicles parked inside the local government secretariat were also razed.

    The Anambra police command have confirmed the unfortunate incident that happened in the wee hours of Sunday.

    Speaking on the incident, the command’s spokesman DSP Ikenga Tochukwu described the incident as the handiwork of unidentified arsonists in the state.

    “Eyewitnesses who didn’t want their names mentioned said that the hoodlums carried out the dastardly act late Sunday night ”

    DSP Tochukwu mentioned that policemen arrived on the scene as soon as they got the information, saying police operatives were there to restore normalcy.

    In another attack close to the local government secretariat, the office of the Enugu Electricity Distribution Company (EEDC), was badly torched.

    The main office building and several shuttle buses used by the company for their operations were all destroyed completely.

    Reacting to this DSP tochukwu stated that no life was lost in both attacks, the command’s spokesman regretted that several buildings and vehicles were destroyed

    He explained that it took the intervention of the police to contain the attacks, thus reducing the level of damage that would have occurred.

    Ikenga, however, said the command has deployed a team of operatives in the area for heavy surveillance operation and with a view to restoring normalcy.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that Professor Charles Soludo, visited the leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, who is being remanded in the custody of the Department of State Services (DSS) in Abuja and days after attacks are being launched on government properties in the state.

    Meanwhile Governor Soludo, who shared pictures of himself and Kanu via his verified social media handle on Saturday night, said the IPOB leader was against the attacks and killings by gunmen in the South East.

    He said that Kanu wished he could address the attacks and killings in the Southeast region.