A Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State has convicted and sentenced two students for fraudulent impersonation.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) confirmed this in a statement on Wednesday by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, saying its Ibadan Zonal Office secured the conviction of the defendants.
Both men – Opeyemi Folarin and Ogunseye Olamilekan – were brought before Justice Patricia Ajoku who convicted them of the crime they were accused of.
Folarin is said to be a Higher National Diploma (HND) student of The Ibadan Polytechnic and Ogunseye claims to be a student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), in Ogun State.
A court in Ecuador on Monday sentenced former vice president Jorge Glas, already serving a jail term, to another eight years in prison for misuse of public funds related to the awarding of an oil contract.
The court said it had found Glas guilty of the crime of embezzlement, along with two former energy ministers among the co-perpetrators.
Glas is already serving a six-year term for having received millions of dollars in kickbacks as part of a corruption scandal.
He was convicted of receiving $13.5 million in bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, and has been imprisoned in Latacunga, south of Quito, since 2017.
Two people were found guilty on Monday of manslaughter and people smuggling over the gruesome discovery of 39 dead Vietnamese migrants in the back of a lorry in England last year.
The bodies of the men and women were found inside a sealed container near London in October 2019 after suffocating in sweltering temperatures.
Lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, from Northern Ireland, and Romanian national Gheorghe Nica, 43, were found guilty on of 39 counts of manslaughter by a London court.
They are expected to be sentenced early in January.
Christopher Kennedy, 24, and Valentin Calota, 38, were also convicted for their part in the smuggling operation after the 10-week trial.
A file photo of a court gavel.
Two people were found guilty on Monday of manslaughter and people smuggling over the gruesome discovery of 39 dead Vietnamese migrants in the back of a lorry in England last year.
The bodies of the men and women were found inside a sealed container near London in October 2019 after suffocating in sweltering temperatures.
Lorry driver Eamonn Harrison, 24, from Northern Ireland, and Romanian national Gheorghe Nica, 43, were found guilty on of 39 counts of manslaughter by a London court.
They are expected to be sentenced early in January.
Christopher Kennedy, 24, and Valentin Calota, 38, were also convicted for their part in the smuggling operation after the 10-week trial.
Jessica Ologbosere
The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Benin City, the state capital, has deferred ruling on applications seeking to strike out the petition of the Action Peoples Party against Governor Godwin Obaseki, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The case seeks to annul the September 19, Edo State Governorship Election on the ground that the petitioner being a registered Political Party in Nigeria was wrongfully excluded from the elections.
The respondents had in their applications argued that the petition bothered on pre-election matters and that it is about an allegation of unlawful substitution, not the exclusion of the candidate of the sole petitioner.