The High Court in Ado Ekiti Division in Ekiti State has pronounced a 28-year-old man, Ayodeji Alomoge, guilty of murder and sentenced him to death by hanging. The harrowing case stemmed from Alomoge's fatal altercation with a man rumored to be involved with his wife.Alomoge stood trial on a charge of murder, accused of perpetrating the heinous act on June 21, 2022, in Ikere Ekiti. According to the charge, he unlawfully took the life of one Ogunleye Ayomide, contrave...

In Ondo state, a High Court has sentenced a 78-year-old community leader, Ojo Komolafe, to death by hanging for killing a School Proprietor, Taofik Babalola,at the Kajola area of Odigbo council area on August 7, 2021.During the trial, police prosecutor, H.M. Falowo, called four witnesses, which included the deceased’s wife; a neighbour; a police officer and a pathologist. While giving evidence, the wife of the deceased, Mrs Babalola, said she heard a gunshot and imm...

After eight years of litigation an Akwa Ibom State High court sitting in Etinan Local Government Area of the State yesterday March 13, sentenced a 37-year-old man, Moses Abdon Edo, to death by hanging for patricide (killing his father) Abdon Peter Edo.The Court was presided over by Justice Ezekiel Enang and held that the convict, an okada rider, who is an indigene of Ikot Ukobo in Nsit Ubium LGA had confessed in his statement that he killed his father on 29th July,...