By Aluta News March 26, 2024 A Kano High Court sitting on Tuesday, sentenced a Chinese National, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, to death by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. Frank, who lives in Railway Quarters Kano, was convicted on one count charge of culpable homicide.Continue Reading
By Aluta News March 19, 2024 Peter Navarro, a White House advisor under former U.S. President Donald Trump, reported to a federal prison on Tuesday to begin serving a four-month sentence. Navarro was found guilty of defying a congressional subpoena from the House Jan. 6 committee. The White House advisorContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 7, 2024 An Enugu State High Court, on Wednesday, sentenced one Miss Chiamaka Ifezue to death by hanging for killing Miss Ijeoma Nweke, a make-up artist on Nov. 11, 2020 The court, presided over by Justice Kenneth Okpe, in a two-hour judgment, found the accused guiltyContinue Reading
By Aluta News Jan. 26, 2024 An Abeokuta Magistrates Court on Friday, sentenced a teenager, Adeola Saheed, for attempting to rape a 35- year-old woman The defendant, 19, who resides at Brewery area in Abeokuta, is facing a three count charge of conspiracy, indecent assault and attempt to rape. TheContinue Reading
By Aluta News Nov. 21, 2023 Justice Hakeem Oshodi, on Tuesday sentenced one Clement Ododomu to death by hanging and one Tiwei Monday to 16 years in a correctional centre. Oshodi delivered the judgement after careful considerations of facts before the court and the demeanor of the convicts, which heContinue Reading
By Aluta News May 5, 2023 A London court has jailed Nigerian politician Ike Ekweremadu for nine years and eight months in Britain’s first illegal organ-harvesting prosecution, the Crown Prosecution Service said on Friday. Ekweremadu’s wife Beatrice, 56, and London-based doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were sentenced to four years andContinue Reading
By Aluta News Oct. 5, 2022 A High Court in Kaduna State on Wednesday ordered the forfeiture of three iPhones, four laptops and three exotic cars belonging to Collins Stephen and Timothy Edward and the proceeds paid into Federal Government coffers. Delivering Judgment, Justice Darius Khobo, also sentenced the convictsContinue Reading
By Aluta News Aug 19, 2022 Chinese-born Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Shanghai court on Friday for bribery, embezzlement and other financial crimes. His Tomorrow Holding investment group, which had close ties to Communist Party leaders, was also fined 55 billion yuanContinue Reading
By Aluta News July 28, 2022 A Kano High Court on Thursday, sentenced a school proprietor Abdulmalik Tanko and Hashimu Isyaku, 37, to death by hanging for the murder of a six-year-old pupil, Hanifa Abubakar. Tanko,38, Isyaku and Fatima Musa, 26, who all reside in Tudun Murtala Quarters, Kano, were arraigned on Feb.14,Continue Reading
By Aluta News June 28, 2022 Egypt’s Emergency Supreme State Security Criminal Court on Tuesday sentenced 10 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group to death for murdering security men and sabotaging public properties. The court also gave a life sentence, which is 25 years in Egypt, to 56 militantsContinue Reading
