A man who stole three face masks from a London hospital during the coronavirus crisis has been jailed for three months. Lerun Hussain, 34, pleaded guilty to the theft at a London magistrates’ court on Tuesday after the theft from King’s College Hospital late on Sunday. Hussain, from south London, was arrested on suspicion of
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A man has been jailed for six months for stealing personal protective equipment, including face masks, from an ambulance, police in London said on Thursday. Mark Manley, 35, pleaded guilty to theft, public order offences and assaulting a security guard who challenged him about the incident near a south London hospital last Saturday evening. The
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An Abuja Federal High Court has on Friday ordered the release of the dethroned Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, who was banished and detained in Awe, a town in Nasarawa State. Sanusi, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria was dethroned on Monday. Justice Anwuli Chikere granted the interim order following an ex
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Former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi, on Thursday instituted a suit before the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking an order for his release from the post-dethronement detention and confinement. According to a report late on Thursday that former Emir’s preliminary ex parte application seeking an interim order for his release had been assigned to Justice
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A Magistrates’ Court sitting at Osogbo in Osun State, on Tuesday, remanded one Dele Abiodun, who stood as surety for his younger brother, Femi, who is being tried for manslaughter. The 43-year-old Dele was remanded by Magistrate Olugbenga Oladoke after his brother, whom he stood surety for on October 10, 2017, before an Osun State
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A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri on Tuesday dismissed a suit challenging the emergence of Sen. Duoye Diri as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) at the Sept. 3, 2019 governorship primaries. In his judgment, Justice Tijjani Ringim said that Diri, who is the incumbent governor of Bayelsa, was duly elected
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Justice Nweze described the January 14 judgment that sacked Ihedioha as a “wonder that shall never end” The tussle over who governs Imo State for another four years ended yesterday as the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed by the ousted governor, Emeka Ihedioha, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). They had approached the apex
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The Supreme Court yesterday adjourned till today the hearing in the application filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate in the March 9, 2019 governorship election in Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha. The request is seeking the review of the apex court’s January 14, 2020 judgment that removed Ihedioha from office as the
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In Anambra, a High Court has ordered a former House of Representatives member, Ifeanyi Ibezim, to pay the sum of N1 million (One million naira) to Mr Paul Onwughalu and Mr Friday Titus Umah as damage for violating their fundamental human rights. The High Court which sat at Oba also ordered Ibezim, who represented Idemili
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has said the Presidency ordered the investigation of a trader, Anthony Okolie, who was using a telephone line previously owned by the President’s daughter, Hanan Buhari. The DSS said this in a counter-affidavit in response to the originating motion filed by Okolie. The DSS position seems to be at
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An Ondo State High Court sitting in Akure has sentenced five men to life imprisonment for their involvement in kidnapping. The convicts are Tosin Adenikinju, Abiodun Olabowale, Omoniyi Akinsoyinu, Olatuyi Igbekele and Daso Oluwasiji. They were arrested by the men of the Ondo State Police Command for kidnapping a nurse, Mrs Unikiere Adodo, who works
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The Supreme Court, on Wednesday, fined Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) and Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN) N30 million each for agreeing to file an application for the review of the apex court’s judgment on Bayelsa election. Justice Amina Augie announced the fine while reading the judgment in the applications for a review of its February 13,
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the applications for a review of its February 13, 2020, judgment which overturned the All Progressives Congress’ victory in the last governorship election in Bayelsa State. A seven-man panel of the apex court led by Justice Sylvester Ngwuta described the applications filed by the APC and its governorship candidate
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Abuja Federal High Court, on Tuesday, convicted a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisah Metuh, and his firm, Destra Investments Limited, of the first of the seven counts instituted against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Ruling on the first count in his judgment, Justice Okon Abang ruled that
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A Lagos Federal High Court has fixed March 27, 2020 for judgment on a motion on notice filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), seeking the permanent forfeiture of the sum of $54,000 found in the domiciliary account of a firm, Asej Global Services, operated by one Ojo Temitope Francis. The anti-graft agency
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