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US court sentences Anambra LG chairman to five years imprisonment for $3.5m romance scam

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Franklin Ikechukwu Nwadialo, chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, has been sentenced to five years in prison in the United States for his scheme to steal some $3.5 million from eight different victims via an online romance scam. The 42-year-old Nigerian national, Nwadialo was arrested at an airport in Texas upon his […]

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Nigeria’s Appeal Court affirms actor Baba Ijesha’s five years imprisonment

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Lagos Division of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal on Thursday upheld a previous judgment by a Lagos State High Court, confirming a five-year prison sentence for Nigerian actor, Olanrewaju James Omiyinka, also known as Baba Ijesha, for the sexual assault of a minor, aged 14. In a judgment delivered by Justice Folashade Ojo, the Court of […]

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