Tag: Magistrates’ Court
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Labourer, 31, jailed 3 months for stealing chief magistrate’s car
A Wuse Zone Six Magistrates’ Court sitting in Abuja on Wednesday sentenced a labourer, Awal Usman, to a three- month imprisonment for stealing a Honda car belonging to a chief magistrate. The police had charged, Usman, 31, of no fixed address with a three-count charge bordering on criminal trespass, mischief, and theft. Magistrate Farida Ibrahim,…
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2 men jailed 2 years each for being in possession of Cannabis
A Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Tuesday sentenced Abdulwahab Ibrahim and Abubakar Umar to two years imprisonment each for being in possession of Cannabis. The police charged Ibrahim, Abubakar and Ibrahim Hamza with constituting public nuisance and being in possession of dry leaves suspected to be Cannabis. The Magistrate, Mrs Punarimam Balogun sentenced Ibrahim,…
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Butcher bags 1 year imprisonment for stealing railroad steel
A Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday sentenced a butcher, Mordecai Jonathan, to one year imprisonment for stealing railroad steel. Magistrate Mary Adams, however, gave the convict an option to pay N20, 000 fine. Jonathan was charged by the police with theft, contrary to section 270 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law.…
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Court remands man for stealing railroad steel
A Magistrates’ Court in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, on Thursday ordered that a 20-year-old man, Ibrahim Shayin, be remanded in a correctional facility after he admitted to stealing railroad steel. The police charged Shayin with theft, contrary to section 270 of the Penal Code Law of Kaduna State. Magistrate Mary Adams, gave the order after Shayin…
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Court remands man for allegedly sodomising 13-year-old boy
A Magistrates’ Court in Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday ordered that a 21-year-old man, Tunde Adeniyi, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly sodomising a 13-year-old boy. The police charged Adeniyi with two counts of unnatural offence and assault. Magistrate O.A. Ajibade, who did not take Adeniyi’s plea, ordered that he should be remanded in…