IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu sentenced to life imprisonment

Nigeria’s Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, to life imprisonment. Kanu was sentenced to life imprisonment for Counts 1, 4, 5 and 6 of the seven-count charge instead of a death penalty, while he was handed a 20-year jail term for Count […]

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Daughter gets life imprisonment for the murder of her father

Polokwane High Court in South Africa has sentenced a 28-year-old South African woman, Mologadi Magdeline Mehlape to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of her father, Dr Malekutu Johannes Mehlape, a circuit manager at the Limpopo Department of Education. The sentence, delivered on Wednesday, June 11, follows her guilty plea to charges of murder and […]

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Man gets life imprisonment for setting former boss ablaze in Ekiti

Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, has sentenced a 41-year-old defendant, one Olasunkanmi Kareem, to life imprisonment for attempting to murder his former boss by setting him ablaze. Kareem was arraigned on November 18, 2024, on a one-count charge of attempted murder, contrary to Section 241 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, […]

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South African pastor sent to life imprisonment for raping underage girl

Nelspruit Sexual Offences Court in South Africa has sentenced a 42-year-old pastor, Dumisani Morris Khumalo, to life imprisonment for the rape of a 14-year-old girl in 2020. The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) DPP Mpumalanga Regional spokesperson, Monica Nyuswa, in a statement on Tuesday, September 3, 2024, said: “The assault had adverse effects on the victim, […]

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Ghanaian couple convicted of beating 5-year-old son to death in US, may face life imprisonment

US-based Ghanaian couple, Valerie Owusu and Emmanuel Addae, have been convicted of second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old son, nearly three years after he was beaten to death. They were found guilty of brutally beating the child with “at least four different instruments” over three days in 2021, according to the Suffolk County […]

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Lagos Bishop sentenced to life imprisonment for raping assistant Pastor

An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos Bishop, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, simply called Feyi Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old female assistant and worshipper (name withheld). The Bishop, who took to the witness box in his own defence, testified that he believed three out of the four women who […]

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Nigerian medical doctor gets life imprisonment for raping 15-year-old wife’s niece

Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation (OCCF), Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for the defilement of his wife’s niece. Justice Rahman Oshodi sentenced him after he found him guilty of the offence of defilement and sexual penetration of a […]

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Nigerian female activist, Oluwatoyin Salau’s killer sentenced to life imprisonment in the US

A Florida judge has sentenced Aaron Glee to life in prison for the 2020 murders of 19-year-old Black Lives Matter (BLM) activist, Oluwatoyin Salau and 75-year-old Victoria Sims. Glee was supposed to plead guilty in January 2023 but decided to have a trial instead. In June, the 52-year-old Glee pleaded guilty to a first-degree murder […]

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Haitian-Chilean citizen gets life imprisonment for assassination of Haiti President

Haitian-Chilean citizen, Rodolphe Jaar, who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his involvement in the assassination of Haitian President, Jovenel Moise has been sentenced to life in prison, Florida court records show. Moïse, 53, was shot and killed inside his home in the Pelerin 5 neighbourhood, in the hills above Port-au-Prince at 01:00 local […]

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Kidnapper Evans, two others sentenced to life imprisonment

Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Federal High Court in Lagos state has sentenced kidnapper Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, and two others, Uchenna Amadi and Okuchuwkwu Nwachukwu, to life imprisonment. He gave the judgment on Friday February 25. Evans alongside his accomplices, Uche Amadi, and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu got the sentence after they were found guilty […]

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Pastor bags life imprisonment for sodomizing pupils (Photos)

The International Crimes Division of the High Court (ICD) in Uganda on Friday, October 8, sentenced a pastor to life imprisonment after he was convicted of six counts of aggravated trafficking in children and six counts of aggravated defilement. Mr Didas Mpagi, alias Bakulu, who was the headmaster of Real Infant Primary School in Wakiso […]

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Two days after she was sentenced to life imprisonment, Nigerian prophetess, dies

A prophetess, Edna Lovely Worleru, who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment last week Thursday, September 16, by a High Court in Rivers State, Nigeria, has died. Just two days after her sentence began, she died. It was reported last week that Worleru, a prophetess with a church in Rumuche community in Emohua Local […]

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Prophet gets life imprisonment in Ekiti over the death of a woman (Photos)

A High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Thursday, July 1, sentenced a cleric, prophet Olakanye Oni, to life imprisonment over the death of a woman. Oni of Christ Apostolic Church (CAC), Palace of Mercy, Olokuta, Ado-Ekiti, was accused of killing one Mrs Gbadamosi Omowale, who came to his church to seek help over her […]

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Ope Bademosi’s killer, hired Togolese cook bags life imprisonment

Togolese cook, Sunday Adefonou Anani, who murdered the Chief Executive Officer of Credit Switch Ltd, Ope Bademosi in his Parview residence on October 31st 2018, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Igbosere High Court. Justice Mobolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Anani following his plea of guilty to a one-count charge of voluntary manslaughter. During the trial, […]

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