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The African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights has ordered Tanzania to remove corporal punishment from its laws to bring them in line with the Charter establishing the court. In its September 5 ruling on an appeal by Yassin Rashid Maige against his 30-year sentence for armed robbery, the court …

The Criminal Division of the High Court in Accra presided over by Justice Mary Maame Ekue Yanzuh, has sentenced five Western Togoland secessionists who were arrested by the police in September 2020 after they blocked the Aveyime road from Accra with sand and attacked the Aveyime and Mepe Police, Stations …

Iran has sentenced three more protesters to death.   They accuse the protesters of killing three members of the security forces during the protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini, the judiciary said Monday, Jan. 9.   The Islamic republic has been rocked by civil unrest since the September 16 …

  A federal court in Argentina has found Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner guilty in a high-profile corruption case, sentencing the influential politician to six years in prison and disqualifying her from holding public office. The decision on Tuesday is expected to be appealed by Fernandez de Kirchner, who …

One year and eight months later, Ghanaian socialite, Akwapem Poloo indicated that karma is impartial and equally judgmental in its assessment of all human behaviour after it was disclosed that Afia Schwarzenegger was to taste prison for ten days and pay a fine of ¢60,000. It can be recalled that in …

The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Tuesday, sentenced the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Usman Alkali Baba, to three months in prison for disobeying a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice M. O. Olajuwon, held that the IGP should be committed to …

The most beautiful declarations In a couple, we always remember the first time the other said “I love you”. It is true that these 3 little words often put us in all our states … And yet, there are sentences even stronger, touching, and heavy with meaning than “I love …

Abidemi Rufai, the former Special Assistant to the Governor of Ogun State has been sentenced to five years in prison for pandemic fraud. This follows the May 2021 charges bordering on wire fraud and aggravated identity theft leveled against him by the U.S. District Court in Tacoma. Rufai is alleged …

An Ikeja Special Offences Court, Lagos has convicted Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, a kidnap kingpin better known as Evans, on charges of conspiracy and kidnapping. This comes a few months after Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court in Ikeja sent him to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of conspiracy …

An Accra Circuit Court has sentenced two thieves to five years imprisonment each, in hard labour. Albert Nii Ayi Quaye, 32 and Kelvin Kitorki, 24, denied conspiring to unlawfully enter the homes of their victims to steal cash and items but were found culpable. After trial, the Court presided over …