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Al-Shabab militantsPhoto: BBC/AFPA woman has been stoned to death in Somalia after a court run by al-Shabab convicted her of having several husbands, the militant group says.Shukri Abdullahi Warsame was accused of marrying eleven times, without divorcing her previous husbands.She […]

+ he Federal High Court in Lagos Division has ordered a temporary forfeiture of N7.3billion and $8.4million allegedly belonging to former First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan.Justice Mojisola Olateregun made the order based on a fresh application by the Economic and […]

By Ray Ekpu Scale of Justice Amnesty International, the libertarian crusader for near-absolute rights, has just released its 2017 annual report on capital punishment aka death penalty. It thinks the world is making progress, although slow, towards abolishing the death penalty. […]

A part of the deceased stabbed to deathThe police have established a case of premeditated murder against the 47-year-old lawyer, Mrs Udeme Odibi, who allegedly stabbed her husband to death in Sangotedo area of Lagos.The Commissioner of Police in Lagos […]

EvansSuspected billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans, has cried out to the judge at the Lagos State High Court that he is being maltreated and not fed well at the Kirikiri Maximum prison.Evans had refused to come down […]

+ Arrest woman for alleged murder of South African lover Fresh information from the police on Monday indicated that lawyer, Udemeh Otike-Odibe might have premeditated the murder of her husband, Sym Otike-Odibe.Mrs. Otike-Odibe had on Thursday morning stabbed her estranged […]

+ A Lokoja Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded Senator Dino Melaye and two others in police custody until June 11.The others are Kabiru Seidu, 31, and Nuhu Salihu, 25.They were arraigned on a seven-count charge of criminal conspiracy and unlawful […]

+ Embattled Senator Dino Melaye (Kogi West) was yesterday arraigned before a Magistrate’s Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, for allegedly  jumping out of a police vehicle.He was accused, in a First Information Report (FIR), of destroying the side glass […]

+ What is the Achilles’ heel of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015? According to some legal experts, it is lack of funding and attitudinal factors, among others. How can the law become better? What other reforms are […]