Tag: Jail
House of Assembly official jailed for N14.5m salary fraud
An official of the Delta State House of Assembly, John Adjeke Akpoghene, has been sentenced to two years imprisonment over N14.5 million salary fraud.
Akpoghene...
Woodberry bags 8-year jail term for $8m fraud in U.S.
Popular internet fraudster, Olalekan Jacob Ponle, well known as Woodberry, has been sentenced to eight-year and three-month imprisonment for $8 million fraud in the...
Teacher jailed for stealing shoes
A Magistrates’ Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, sentenced a 40-year-old teacher, Sani Mohammed, to four months...
Hushpuppi’s ally, Woodberry, faces 14 years jail term over $8m scam
Popular internet fraudster, Olalekan Jacob Ponle, well known as Woodberry, is set to face a 14-year jail term over an $8 million scam in...
Teenager jailed for stealing goat
An Area Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital, has sentenced an 18-year-old boy, Ibrahim Ali, to three months imprisonment for stealing a...
Security guards jailed for sleeping on duty
An Area Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital, on Monday, June 26, sentenced two security guards, Abubakar Adam and Gambo Bukas, to...
Ex-Reps member, 3 Sterling Bank officials jailed for N212m fraud
The Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has convicted a former member of the House of Representatives, Mansur Ali Mashi, on eight counts of...
Internet fraudster jailed for 10 years in Delta
The Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has convicted and sentenced an internet fraudster, Otede Pio Meyeoghene, to 10 years imprisonment for...
Man jailed for NNPC job scam in Kaduna
The Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has sentenced a man, Emmanuel Sunday, to two years imprisonment for the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation...
OAU student’s death: Hotel receptionist jailed
The Osun State High Court has sentenced Adedeji Adesola, the receptionist at the Hilton Hotels in Ile-Ife where the former postgraduate student of the...