Yesterday in Tacoma, the United States District Court sentenced Abidemi Rufai, one of the Special Assistants to the Governor of Ogun State, Dapo Abiodun, to five years in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.Rufai, a 45-year-old Nigerian, according to a statement issued by U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Washington signed by U.S. Attorney Nick Brown, said was jailed for his attempt to steal nearly $2.4 million from the United States governm...

Yesterday, an Edo state high court sentenced a 31 year old man named Sunday Akpeji to 9 Years imprisonment For Raping a 7-years old girl in Akoko-Edo, the northern part of Edo State.The 31-years-old was sentenced to 9 years in prison with hard labour and no option of fine, for defiling a 7-years-old girl in Igarra, Akoko-Edo, Edo state.It should be noted that Akpeji raped the girl in Igarra, Akoko-Edo, Edo state on 19th August, 2019 was convicted and sentenced on Tu...

One pastor named Friday Okeneji, 29, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by an Akure Magistrate’s Court for breaking into a shop, where he stole some chemical substances worth N130,000.Okeneji, the presiding pastor of a church in Iwaro Oka Akoko, Ondo State, was said to have committed the offences on July 2, 2023, at Iwaro Oka Akoko.The convict, who pleaded guilty to the two-count charge read to him, confessed that he committed the offence to survive.He tol...