Jails

A High Court of Justice sitting in Maiduguri, Borno State, has sentenced a 37-year-old woman, Fatima Sanda, to two years’ imprisonment for procuring a 16-year-old girl for sexual…

A Federal High Court in Kano has sentenced a 28-year-old man, Ashiru Idris, to seven years imprisonment for advertising cannabis for sale on social media. The conviction was secured by…

The Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced five men to 25 years imprisonment each for their involvement in the November 2025 attack on St. Mary’s Catholic School in Papiri, Niger State.…

A United States court has sentenced James Junior Aliyu to 90 months in prison for his role in a large-scale wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy linked to a business email…

Three soldiers in Cameroon have been sentenced to prison for their roles in the killing of at least 21 civilians in the country’s conflict-hit Anglophone region, in one of the rare…

A self-styled traditional healer has been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a Rusape court in Zimbabwe after he was found guilty of attempting to rape a woman during a purported spiritual…

An Iranian court has sentenced two French citizens to lengthy prison terms after convicting them of espionage for France and Israel, according to the semi-official Fars news agency on…

A Taiwan court has sentenced four former members of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), including a one-time staffer in President Lai Ching-te’s office, to prison terms ranging…

A Chinese court has sentenced a Japanese national to three and a half years in prison on charges of espionage, Japan’s embassy in Beijing confirmed on Wednesday. The man, an employee of…

A former college principal in Odisha, eastern India, has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering a newlywed man and his great aunt with a bomb disguised as a wedding gift. Punjilal…