The sponsor of the bill, Hon. Rabiu Idris from Funtua Local Government, had earlier said that the amendment was to ensure that rapists received severe punishment to serve as deterrent to others
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Delivering judgment, Justice Mabel Omovie said that the prosecution had proved its case beyond all reasonable doubts
Goni, a bricklayer resident in Dutse Alhaji, Abuja, also said that he committed the crime because he needed money to settle his parents’ house rent of N50,000, which had expired
According to them, Ibadan said Toyota Camry cars are in hot demand.
They however used to reluctantly settle for snatching other cars, whenever fate did not provide them the opportunity to snatch Toyota Camry cars
EFCC’s counsel, Seidu Atteh, told the court that Ajudua, alongside others who are still at large, defrauded a former Chief of Army Staff, retired Lieutenant General Ishaya Bamaiyi, of about $8.395 million while in detention at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos between November 2004 and June 2005
The EFCC counsel, Musa Isah, told the court that the defendants had conspired with others still at large to commit the offences in October 2010 in Lagos
The suspect, fondly called Smallie by all and sundry, was arrested for being in possession of two pump action guns and a large quantity of substance suspected to be cocaine by the Department of State Security operatives
The suspect, Tajudeen Onifara Oluwa, was said to have been arrested in Ibadan, Oyo State after police had been on his trail for weeks.
Oluwa was arrested while he was having fun with one of his lovers in Ibadan
The accused was arrested on November 24 in Owerri for allegedly abducting a day-old baby delivered by one Chinaza Nnachi, 19, in the premises of the home owned by the doctor
Magistrate Habiba Barde ordered the accused to be remanded in prison, pending the release of a legal advice from the Ministry of Justice, Jalingo
The accused (name withheld) was charged with the offence of defiling his daughter in his house on November 30 at 9pm
Police prosecutor, Corporal Matins Olowofeso, had told the court that the two accused persons had unlawful carnal knowledge with the lady by means of threat with cutlass on her way back from the farm
The prosecutor, Inspector Isiaka Ajadi, told the court that the accused committed the offence on November 23 at about 2am along Capital Hotel Road in Dada Estate, Osogbo
Adeyanju said that the prosecutor should duplicate the case file and forward it to the DPP and the Ministry of Justice for legal advice
At the resumed sitting on Thursday, counsel to the 6th defendant, Richard Ogunwole, holding brief for all other defendants, told the court that a letter had been written to the Chief Judge, Oyo State, seeking the transfer of the case to another judge
He was charged alongside two other oil marketers, Olarenwaju Olalusi and Opeyemi Ajuyah and their companies, Majope Investment Limited and Axenergy Limited
“The father of one of the children took his son who had sustained injury in the act to a private clinic, which prompted the doctor to alert the police,” he said
The statement, made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, added that another $1 trillion is paid in bribes across the world every year
Ogundare, of 3, Alanda Close, Palmgrove, Lagos, who was a bulk teller with the bank, is facing a charge of stealing
This was contained in a statement issued by the Nigerian Navy Ship, Pathfinder, Base Information Officer, Lt.-Cdr. Abdulsalam Sani, on Sunday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital