An Asaba Magistrate’s Court Tuesday sentenced one Emmanuel Michael to five years imprisonment with hard labour for stealing gold earrings worth N25,000.

The convict who immediately pleaded guilty to the two-count charge leveled against him upon arraignment, broke down in tears in the dock, saying “I was hungry.”

The prosecution stated that the accused “on the February 1, 2013 at back of NTA Asaba in the Asaba Magisterial District broke into the house of one Okechukwu Uheghbu and stole a pair of gold earrings and its pendant valued at N25,000, property of Mr. and Mrs. Okechukwu Uheghbu and thereby committed an offence punishable under
section 411(1) of the Criminal Code Cap C21 Vol. 1 Law of Delta State of Nigeria, 2006.”

While sentencing him to five years imprisonment with hard labour, the Presiding Chief Magistrate, Sylvester Ehikwe, stated that “he does not deserve mercy as burglary is next to armed robbery.”

The Baale of Imedu-Nla in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, Chief Jimoh Adebayo, and two others were arraigned at an Owode-Egba Chief Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing a bunch of plantain from a church.

They were alleged to have scaled the fence of the church where they reportedly stole the bunch of plantain valued at N2, 000.

One of the accused persons was also alleged to have threatened and chased the pastor of the church with cutlass when the latter caught him.

The police prosecutor, Sergeant Evidence Onyenmaobi, told the court that the monarch alongside two other persons whose names were given as 70-year-old Wahab Atenreti and Surajudeen Ayenreti, 35, allegedly connived to steal the bunch of plantain within the premises of Jubilee Baptist Church in the area on December 31, 2012.

The prosecutor argued that the offence contravened Sections 516, 390 (9) and 86 (2) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State, 2006.

However, the Baale and the two others pleaded not guilty to the three counts of conspiracy, stealing and threat to life.

Their counsel, Mr. Ade Agbolade pleaded with the court to grant his clients bail, assuring that they would not jump bail.

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The Lagos state Police command over the weekend arrested a mother of four for allegedly killing her husband, Mr Emmanuel during a brawl over food in Ikorodu area of the state.

The suspect, Mrs. Folake Adekoya-Ojo, was arrested following reports by her
late husband’s relative, one Olaoye, who suspected that she had a hand in his brother’s death, consequently, she was invited by policemen at Shagamu Road Division.

DailyPost gathered that the accused denied having a hand in her husband’s death but rather told policemen that her 37-year-old husband committed suicide by hanging himself on the ceiling fan, last Friday, while her in-laws insisted that their late brother was hacked to death.

Consequently, the Divisional Police Officer, Mr Bernard Odiagbonya deployed some policemen from the division to inspect the late Emmanuel’s corpse where it was discovered that it has a deep cut on the head.

On further interrogations, the widow reportedly confessed to have hit her husband with a stone during a brawl.

She explained that her husband came home at about 11p.m. that fateful night demanding for food. According to the bereaved woman, served him amala and okro soup, only for him to complain that it was not properly served. The widow reportedly ate the meal, an action she said infuriated her late husband.

This, we gathered, generated into a fight during which she claimed she hit him with a stone on the head in defence.

A-50-year-old woman, Mrs. Nma Ukonu has dragged the Enugu State Waste Management Authority (ESWAMA), before a Federal High Court sitting in Enugu demanding N50 million over alleged violation of her fundamental rights.
Also joined in the suit before Justice Dorathy Agishi are two ESWAMA staff, Mrs. Chinyere T. Ogaukwu and Mr. Nnamani.
The applicant, a staff of South Saharan Social Development Organization, in a suit No: EN/M/133/12 prayed the court to declare that the action of the respondents “in inflicting grievous injuries on me by hitting me with unidentified objects and fistic blows on the head and all over the body is a violation of my rights”.
The plaintiff added that she was forcefully taken away from her office on 29th of August, 2012, on the ground that her office had not paid certain fee to the authority.
She wants the court to declare that the alleged action constitutes a flagrant violation of her fundamental rights guaranteed under the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the African Charter on Human and Peoples rights.
Also, Ukonu also prayed the court to declare that “my arrest and detention for over 8 hours at the respondents’ office without committing any offence known to law, thereby subjecting me to physical and psychological torture, constitutes a flagrant violation of my right as guaranteed in the constitution”.
The plaintiff wants the court to grant an order of perpetual injunction “restraining ESWAMA, whether by themselves, their agents, privies or otherwise whosoever from further beating, harassing, intimidating, trailing, scaring, arresting or detaining her upon the same facts constituting the complaints.
“I am also asking the court to award N50 million against the respondents being exemplary, punitive, aggravated, special and general damages for their infringement of my constitutional and fundamental rights”.
When the matter came up, counsel to the respondents, J. C Ezeh asked the court for extension of time to enable him file his replies.
Counsel to the applicant, Olu Omotayor Esq did not object. The court adjourned to March, 12, 2013 for adoption of written address.