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A British nurse was found guilty Friday of murdering seven newborn babies and trying to kill six others at the hospital neonatal unit where she worked, becoming the UK’s most prolific child killer. Lucy Letby, 33, had been on trial since October last year, accused of either injecting her sick or premature young victims with…
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PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT: NBA TO INVESTIGATE ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST PROF CYRIL NDIFON OF UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR AND ATTEMPTED BRIBE OF ELECTION PETITION JUDGE; PETITIONED LPDC OVER CONDUCT OF SUSPENDED ADAMAWA INEC REC AND MISS IFUNANYA EXCEL GRANT ALIAS “THE BADDEST LAWYER” Akorede Habeeb LawalPublicity Secretary, Nigerian Bar Association (2022-2024) The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA)…
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Schoolteacher Enoch Burke, who was dismissed from his position for alleged gross misconduct, has been ordered to pay legal costs to the Wilson’s Hospital School in their successful High Court action against him earlier this year. Awarding the costs to the school on Monday, Mr Justice Alexander Owens made an order restraining Mr Burke from…
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Former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy has been found not guilty of rape and attempted rape. The France international was accused of raping a 24-year-old woman in a bedroom at his multi-million-pound mansion in Cheshire in October 2020. He was also charged with the attempted rape of a 29-year-old woman at his home two years…
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An 80-year-old grandfather jailed for the repeated rape of his granddaughter and the sexual assault of her two younger sisters has failed in his bid to overturn his conviction. The man, who cannot be named to protect the identity of his victims, was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to ten years’ imprisonment with one year suspended…
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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a Republican-led challenge to a Biden administration policy that prioritizes the deportation of immigrants who are deemed to pose the greatest risk to public safety or were picked up at the border. The justices voted 8-1 to allow the long-blocked policy to take effect, recognizing there is not enough…
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The former head of the police watchdog in the UK has been charged with rape and other sexual offences against a girl under the age of 16. Michael Lockwood, the former director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), has been charged with six counts of indecent assault and three offences of rape,…
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Court admits final presidential election results as exhibits in Obi’s petition against Tinubu’s victory In a renewed bid to justify his request for nullification of the election of President Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the last presidential election, Peter Obi, on Wednesday tendered the collated final presidential election results…
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A video clip showing men gathered in an Orange Hall singing a song mocking murder victim Michaela McAreavey has been played at the employment tribunal of a Portadown lorry driver. Andrew McDade filmed the livestream video in a hall in Dundonald during which a song was heard mocking the death of the Co Tyrone teacher,…
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Following the unanimous Supreme Court verdict that reaffirmed his election, Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has stated that he has forgiven all those who might have offended him during his struggle to assume the leadership of the state. He stated this while on a thank you visit to the palaces of the Ataoja of…
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A Kenyan pastor who appeared in court Tuesday will face terrorism charges over the deaths of more than 100 people found buried in what has been dubbed the “Shakahola forest massacre,” prosecutors said. The deeply religious Christian-majority country has been stunned by the discovery of mass graves last month in a forest near the Indian…
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France’s top constitutional body has cleared the Macron government’s highly unpopular move to raise the state pension age from 62 to 64. The Constitutional Council also rejected calls for a referendum by political opponents but struck out some of the reforms citing legal flaws. Twelve days of protests have been held against the reforms since…
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A federal judge wants to know if ex-President Donald Trump plans to attend a New York trial this month resulting from a columnist’s claims that he raped her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued an order Monday directing parties in the case to notify him by April…
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A court in Kano state, Nigeria has ‘advised a man to kill his cockerel’ or face the consequence of disobeying a legal order. The court gave the ruling following a complaint from a neighbour who told the court that the bird often deprived him of sleep. The court then gave the man till Friday to…
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The President-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has petitioned the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, to sanction Channels Television for breaching the Nigerian Broadcasting Code during an interview with the Vice Presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Datti Baba Ahmed. In the petition signed by the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign council Director of Media and Publicity,…
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A retired eye doctor has lost “the ability to function at a high level” since a 2016 skiing collision with Gwyneth Paltrow, a court in Utah heard. Terry Sanderson was a “high-energy person”, but “deteriorated abruptly” after the crash, Dr Wendell Gibby testified. Mr Sanderson, 76, claims the Hollywood actress caused the collision. He is…
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