Justice Rahman Oshodi, in his judgment, held that the prosecution proved the ingredients of defilement against Durojaye, beyond reasonable doubts.
Browsing: life imprisonment
The convict was arraigned before Justice Blessing Ajileye on June 22, 2023, on a charge of raping his friend’s grandaughter.
Those convicted are the Sarkin Fulani of Kwara, Usman Adamu, his brother, and one Gidaddo Idris.
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Lagos on Monday sentenced a man, Joseph Ekanem, to double life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s 13-year-old daughter.
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced an apprentice, Godwin Ogboniya, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his employer’s nine-year-old daughter.
Justice Abiola Soladoye held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubts – the charge of defilement against Ajibade, a resident of Abule-Egba in Lagos.
He had pleaded not guilty to a one-count charge of rape and was convicted for forcefully having sexual intercourse.
The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye described Isaiah in her judgment as a “sexual lunatic” noting that the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against the convict beyond reasonable doubt.
The bricklayer who hailed from Mbiakpan Atan in Ibiono Ibom Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State was found guilty of the offence on Tuesday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Justice Abiola Soladoye sentenced Imoh after finding him guilty.
The bill sponsored by Senator Ibikunle Amosun (APC, Ogun Central) seeks to, among others, introduce stiffer punishments and punitive measures to combat and prevent kidnapping in Nigeria.
Justice Ayokunle Rotimi-Balogun, also found the convict guilty for attempt to kill one Rabi Yakubu, and accordingly sentenced him to life imprisonment.
Ligon who is now 83 years old was convicted of taking part in a string of robberies and assaults with a group of drunk teens which left two people dead in Philadelphia in 1953.
In his judgment, Justice Adekunle Adeleye pronounced that “I hold that the prosecution has established the ingredients of the offence of rape against the defendant beyond reasonable doubt, he is found guilty as charged and is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment.”
The defendant, an artisan, is standing trial on a one count of trafficking 546.4kg of Cannabis, also known as hemp.
Ajewole, 43, pleaded guilty to the first count out of the five counts levelled against him by the police.
Dr. Dipo Akomolafe, the Chairman of ASUU at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Ondo State, said life imprisonment would curb the criminal act in the country.
Delivering judgment, Justice Modupe Nicol-Clay, held that the prosecution had proved its case with the elements of the offence of manslaughter and that strong circumstantial evidence was presented in court.
Kwashi, who is also the Northern Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, made the call on Saturday in Abuja at the National Conference of Northern Nigerian Christian Politicians