A Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 2, Abuja, has sentenced ‘Professor’ Jide Josiah Jisos to six months in prison for impersonation during the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME. The convict was apprehended by officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB, while monitoring the 2019 UTME at Brix Academy in Abuja. The board which confirmed this in a statement, …

A Nigerian working as a nurse in the United Kingdom, Ruth Auta, has been sentenced to three years in prison for neglecting her ten-week-old baby, Joshua Akerele, who died while she was at work. The 28-year-old single mother had reportedly left Joshua alone in her nurse’s accommodation for eight hours on 20 December 2022, to complete her shift. On returning, …

A Federal High Court in Onitsha, Anambra State has convicted and sentenced 41 individuals to one-year imprisonment each for internet fraud-related offences. This was disclosed in a statement on the website of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday. According to the statement, the convicts, who were arrested by the Enugu Zonal Command of the EFCC, pleaded guilty …