Rapper Jarule released from prison

You all know him and would have probably forgotten he’s been behind bars all this while.

After spending almost two years in prison for attempted illegal gun possession and tax evasion, US rapper Ja Rule has been released from prison. Ja Rule was released from Ray Brook Federal Prison in New York today Tuesday May 6th but will remain on home confinement until July…

Nigeria: Man to spend 10 years in prison for stealing state governor’s phone

Lagos, Nigeria – A court in Nigeria’s South-west state of Osun has sentenced a 31-year-old man, Kelvin Ighodalo, to 10 years in prison without an option of fine for stealing a Sony Ericsson mobile phone valued at 50,000 naira (US$ 300) from the state governor, Rauf Aregbesola.

According to local media reports Tuesday, Kelvin, who was charged with…

Wesley Snipes Out of Prison for Tax Evasion

Wesley Snipes is a free man again, relatively speaking. The actor has been released from prison and moved to house arrest in New York City, reports TMZ. He had been serving a three-year sentence since December 2010 for failure to pay about $ 7 million in federal taxes from 1999 to 2001. At the time, he took…

Lagos State Government Sends 30 Beggars to Prison

The Special Offences Court in Alausa area of Ikeja has sent 30 beggars to Kirikiri and Badagry Prisons for soliciting for alms and other offences.

They were charged to court for constituting nuisance in public by begging for alms.

The government says it is no longer going to be business as usual for the beggars as offenders will be prosecuted. Some of the count charges…

Farouk Lawan & Boniface Enemalo treated as “VIPs” at Kuje Prison; Reject Prison Food

Media sources have reported that Farouk Lawan and Boniface Enemalo, the two men remanded in Prison for allegedly soliciting for and obtaining $ 620,000 bribe are being kept in a “choice cell” befitting their status as “Very Important Personalities”.

Lawan, the former  former Chairman of the House of Representatives Adhoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy and Enemalo, former Secretary of the committee were remanded in prison…

Farouk Lawan remanded in prison

Farouk Lawan

Farouk Lawan, the lawmaker who allegedly collected a bribe of $ 500, 000 (N75 million) from an oil mogul, Femi Otedola, has been remanded in prison by an Abuja court.

The judge directed on Friday that Mr. Lawan, a top member of the House of Representatives, be held…

President Jonathan May Spend 7 Years In Prison After Tenure – Prophet

Respected for the accuracy of his predictions, Prophet Marcus Tibetan who is widely referred to as the Nostradamus of our time predicts that ten Ministers in the cabinet of President Goodluck Jonathan would be dropped this year for being ineffective and incompetent.

These are some of the predictions of Prophet Marcus Tibetan, the Parish Head of Celestial Church of Christ, Elisha Parish, for the…

20-Year-Old Man To Spend Two Years In Prison For Stealing N1,000 Chicken

A 20-year-old man, Matthew Iroko, was on Thursday sentenced to two years in prison by an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court for stealing a chicken, valued at N1,000.

The sentence, followed a plea of guilty by Iroko, after he was arraigned before Magistrate Idowu Olayinka.

Olayinka sentenced Iroko to two years in prison without an option of…

From Prison With Love: Ibori’s full page newspaper Birthday Greeting to Alamieyeseigha

Imprisoned former Governor James Onafefe Ibori of Delta State today bought a full-page advert in a Nigerian newspaper to congratulate his peer, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, on his 60th birthday.

Mr. Alamieyeseigha was a former governor of Bayelsa State. Like Mr. Ibori, he was ensnared in legal trouble in the UK for his money laundering activities….

‘All General Overseers and religious leaders should go to prison’ – Pastor Tunde Bakare

All General overseers and religious leaders must go to prison, so they can feel the Nigerian situation. Lock Pastor Adeboye, Pastor Kumuyi, myself and others up in a Nigerian prison, may be if we come out we will change and put the interest of our people first. Preaching greed is sin,…