A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced to death the General Overseer of Alter of Solution and Healing Assembly in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor for killing three persons, including his choir mistress, who he impregnated. The trial judge, Justice S. Benson said that the evidence and confessional statement by Okoroafor …

Osun State High Court has found popular hotel owner, Dr. Abdulrahman Adedoyin guilty and sentenced him to death by hanging in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, a former master’s degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Adegoke was killed between 5th and 7th November 2021, at Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife. Two of Adedoyin’s staff – Adeniyi Aderogba and …

A frontline Civil Society Organisation committed to fighting sexual and gender-based violence, Men Against Rape Foundation (MARF) has commended the Lagos State Government for acceding to its request to review the charges brought against Mr Ikechukwu Ogbonna over his role in events leading to the death of his wife, Mrs Bimbo Ogbonna. Initially, the Police in Lagos charged Ogbonna for …

Lagos State Government has opposed the bail request of Mr Ikechukwu Ogbonna, who is currently languishing at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre for a charge of involuntary manslaughter following his alleged complicity in the circumstances which led to the death of his wife, 35-year-old Mrs Bimbo Ogbonna. On 31 January 2023, a Lagos State Magistrate Court had remanded Mr Ogbonna at …

A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has fixed 8th November for a trial-within-trial to determine whether it should admit the confessional statement allegedly made by murder suspect, Miss Chidinma Ojukwu, who has been standing trial for the death of the Chief Executive Officer of Super Tv, Usifo Michael Ataga. Justice Yetunde Adesanya made the ruling following Ojukwu’s …