He gave the order after the Prosecution Counsel, Precious Onyeneho, prayed that he be remanded pending completion of investigation.
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Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Digil ordered the arrest of the ex-Judge for allegedly beating a court bailiff, Amos Ndari.
The convicts were convicted for collecting the money to facilitate recruitment into NSCDC.
The trial judge, Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar, said Gideon was convicted and sentenced based on his confessional statement, his guilty plea to the charges and the exhibits tendered against him before the court.
The convicts were said to have connived and fraudulently stole the sum of N11,360,000 from the complainant for their personal use.
Umar and his accomplice had earlier been convicted of a three count charge by an Adamawa State High Court and sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
The development comes over a year after Tinubu-Ojo, who is also the Iyaloja-General of Lagos State reportedly imposed leaders on the traders who then introduced new levies, a development which sparked a series of protests at the Computer Village.
The defendants, who did not provide their age to the court, faced three counts bordering on conspiracy, attempt to commit armed robbery and culpable homicide punishable with death.
The News Agency of reports that the coronation is scheduled to hold on November 9
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons charged the Ghanaian on June 30 with three counts bordering on sexual abuse.
The police charged Abdulkadiri with causing the death of an unborn child.
The plaintiffs, 70-year-old Alhaji Yusuf Madugu Umaru and four other members of Igabi community, had instituted the suit on October 28, 2014, asking the court to restrain the NAF and three others, being the defendants, from further trespassing into their property.
The Attorney-General of the Federation charged Melaye with two counts of giving false information to the police.
An Osun State High Court on Wednesday sentenced two persons to death by hanging for armed robbery and conspiracy.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Jide Falola, had ordered that the convicts be hung until they die due to the magnitude of the offence committed.
The convicts faced a five-count charge bordering on armed robbery, conspiracy and theft preferred against them.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the judgement was delivered at the Ilesa Correctional Centre during the Prison visit of the Osun Chief Judge, Justice Adeleke Ojo.
Falola had earlier found the convicts guilty of the five-count charges after thorough judicial proceeding and arguments from the counsel.
The State Prosecution Counsel, Muyiwa Ogunleye, had told the court that the convicts committed the offenve on April 14, 2016 at Oke-Ola area at about 8pm.
He said the convicts conspired among themselves with others, now at large, to rob Muideen Owonifari, Clement Taiwo and Olubunmi of their property and money.
Ogunleye said: “The convicts who had a list of their targets normally tick the list once their target is taken off from investigation.
“They robbed, assaulted and also stole some valuables and huge amount of money belonging to the complainants at gun point.”
The prosecution counsel said the offence contravened sections 1 (1)(2)(a) robbery and firearms (Special Provision) Act Cap R 11 laws of Nigeria, 2004.
The defence counsel, L. S Bello, had earlier prayed the court to temper justice with mercy in sentencing the accused.
The Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola has sentenced a former Executive Secretary, Adamawa State Christian Pilgrims Welfare Board, Bishop Jingi Mayo, to five years imprisonment.
A Plateau High Court on Tuesday fixed December 23 for adoption of final written addresses on the alleged N6.3 billion fraud case against former Governor, Jonah Jang and his former cashier in the cabinet office, Yusuf Pam.
A High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau Stareon Thursday sentenced a 20-year-old man, Agugu Adau, to death by hanging for killing his mother.
Gigaba resigned as minister on Tuesday in a case involving efforts to set up an immigration facility for wealthy VIPs at an airport.
However, an Ekiti State High Court refused to grant an order to restrain Governor-elect Dr. Kayode Fayemi, from dissolving the 16 local government councils, as pleaded by the chairmen.
Dismissing the application in a ruling, Justice Abiodun Adesodun, described the suit as unmeritorious, pre-emptive and speculative.
Bello, who made the disclosure at a ceremony to mark the commencement of the new legal year in Kaduna, however said that 60% of the cases had been disposed of.