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A court on Friday sentenced the billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Lee, to five years in prison for bribery.After a six-month trial over a scandal that brought down the then president, Park Geun-hye, a court ruled that…

A man who tried to smuggle a pipe bomb onto a flight from Britain’s Manchester Airport was jailed on Wednesday for 18 years for possessing explosives with intent to endanger life.Nadeem Muhammad, 43, was trying to board a Ryanair flight…

A London court on Thursday sentenced three men who had planned attacks in Britain to life in prison.A jury at the Old Bailey agreed beyond any doubt that the men, who had referred to themselves as the “Three Musketeers” in an intercepted…

A 40-year-old man, Kayode Adedeji, has received a death sentence by Osun State High Court ‎in Osogboto for robbing a woman of N3,420.‎Adedji is to be hung by the neck till he is dead. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday for a …

A Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, sentenced a security guard, Zakaria Jacob, to four months imprisonment for sleeping at his duty post, when thieves burgled his employer’s premises.Jacob, 32, who resides at Waru Apo…

A British student, who left a homemade bomb packed with ball bearings and shrapnel on a London underground train on its way to the Canary Wharf financial district last October, was jailed for 15 years on Friday.Damon Smith, 20, set the…

A former Chief Accountant of Vanguard Newspaper, Bhadmus Abiodun, was on Tuesday sentenced to 14-years in prison by Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of an Ikeja High Court for forgery and stealing N3.1million.The money belongs to the media…

Outgoing President Barack Obama has commuted the sentences of 1,023 federal prison inmates to shorter sentences.The figure is more than the past 11 presidents combined had done, the White House said on Tuesday.The White House, in a…