I’ll drive myself to Prison Gate– Sanusi

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The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mallam Lamido Sanusi, is in the eye of the storm for what many see as his outspokenness and controversial position on critical national issues, especially his revelation about unremitted funds to the Federation Account by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation. Shortly before his suspension by the President, he spoke to Metropole magazine. Excerpts

You openly said you were not interested in being reappointed as the governor of CBN. Why?

We are all prisoners of our history and certain people and certain events in our lives tend to shape how we approach life. My father was a career diplomat and in 1975, General Murtala Mohammed appointed him as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His first request was that he would be allowed to leave in two years. Unfortunately, General Murtala Mohammed died after six months and he had to stay for another year; and so, he spent about three years.

VIDEO: Watch Mandela’s Speech Immediately After His Release From Jail.

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Nelson Mandela‘s address to a rally in  Cape Town on his release from prison. Immediately

Michael Jackson’s Killer Doctor Regains Freedom after serving for 2 years.

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Conrad Murray has been released from jail 2 yrs after being convicted of causing Michael Jackson's death, Sky News reports. A doctor, 60, left a jail in central Los Angeles soon after midnight local time, the sheriff's office said.

 “He was elated to be out of there,” Murray's lawyer, Valerie Wass said. He plans to spend more time with his girlfriend and children and to read just outside prison. Murray was convicted in 2011 of involuntary manslaughter in respect of 50-year-old Jackson's death in June 2009.

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Chris Brown released From Jail, charges reduced to Misdemeanor.

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Felony assault charge reduced to misdemeanor. Chris Brown is a free man, and a lucky one, too. The singer has been released from jail after being arrested early Sunday morning for allegedly punching a man and hurling a gay slur facing a Washington, D.C. hotel. What's more, the felony charges against Brown have been dropped to a misdemeanor, meaning Brown won't face any further jail time as the consequence of this incident.

Couple nabbed trying to sell unborn child to buy iPhone, faces Jail sentence.

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A Chinese couple will face years in jail after allegedly trying to sell their daughter to get iPhone 5 for $8 200. The couple placed anonymous advertisements in newspapers suggesting they would be prepared to part making use of their baby after giving birth.

They were charged with human-trafficking. According to Chinese media reports, the amount of money, that have been deposited in couple's bank account, were used to get a brand new iPhone and various other luxury goods.

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Hehehe: Being Retweeted 500 Times Can Get You 3 Years in Jail

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Details of a new law issued by China’s supreme court are bound to make loose talkers on Sina Weibo* and other social media platforms think twice before speaking freely.
The law says that any libelous posts or messages will be considered “severe” breaches of the law if they are visited or clicked on more than 5,000 times or retweeted more than 500 times.

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Prisoners Perform O-ral $-ex In Police Van While On Their Way To Jail

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These male and female prisoners had a brief encounter they probably won't forget.
Carlisa Brookins was caught by their corrections officer as he was performing oral s-ex on and Alexis Garcia while he was transporting the couple and eight others to a Las Vegas Jail.
The male and female inmates were separated into rows and all of them had belly constraints so the officer was surprised when he saw Brookins allegedly bend over her seat to perform a s-ex act on Garcia.

When the officer turned on the light, Brookins immediately sat up and made several comments claiming she was not a prostitute because she didn’t charge Garcia, according to the police report quoted by the Sun.

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Domestic Violence: Beat your woman in Lagos and spend some months in jail

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There's a new Domestic Violence Law in Lagos State, and it states that if you beat your wife, you will go to Jail. It is now an offense for any man to hit his wife.

According to the deputy governor of Lagos State, Hon Joke Orelope-Adefulire, the Domestic Violence Law is made not only to protect women who are most times the target of violence in the home but also to safeguard the interest of men, children, servants, maids and everyone who may be a victim of domestic violence. 

In case of man/woman abuse issues, it does not matter whether there's a valid contracted marriage between the victim and the perpetrator of the act as long as they are living together in a home setting. Continue Reading...

Tonto Dikeh reacts to NDLEA jail term threat

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The photos are still up on Instagram, take them down biko!

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Tonto Dikeh May End Up In Jail For Smoking We-ed; She Cries That People dislike Her

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has reacted to the photos of Indian Hemp posted by Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, on the social media, boasting that "I smoke ganja". 

Disclosing that Tonto Dikeh may spend the next 15 years in prison for daring to smoke Igbo and expose it, the NDLEA spokesman, Mitchell Ofoyeju said:

“Our attention has been drawn to the post quite frankly and I can tell you that action will be taken on it. The law is clear and NDLEA has been very clear on the issue. No one is permitted to sell, use, cultivate or encourage the use of Indian hemp in Nigeria. The weed is one of the banned narcotics in the country."

To had on Friday posted photographs of a wrap of hemp and grains of the weed formed into the letters, ‘Happy birthday POKO.’

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Video: Father-Daughter Dance Was Held For Prisoners In Virginia Jail

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All of the prisoners at Virginia’s Richmond City Jail admit they made poor choices, and could be better fathers. “I am definitely failing as a parent right now, just by being out of her life,” Ronnell Glasgow said. A few examples: Julian Edwards is serving four years for drug distribution, Joey Atkins is awaiting trial for illegal gun possession, and Glasgow is serving seven years for selling drugs. Most of the men are in their 20s and 30s.

Gerald Ward is awaiting trial for guns and drug charges. He told us his daughter is only four. “But it’s amazing what she understands. She understand that Daddy did something wrong, ” he says. As these troubled men serve out their sentences, their children pay a price –  often spending the most important years of their lives without active father figures.

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16 Years Old boy gets 90 yrs jail term Prison for killing 1yr old baby

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Sixteen-year-old Donald Ray Dokins'short stature and baby face belie the crime he committed: the fatal shooting of a 1-year-old boy in the arms of his proud and doting father. 
As he willing to sentence the teenager, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Pat Connolly could barely contain his contempt. “You've no intestinal fortitude to sit up and look at me,” Connolly said to Dokins, who was simply staring at the floor, steering clear of the judge's gaze. “You've hatred in your heart that I can't understand.”

Prosecutors claim that on June 4, 2012, Dokins, a then-15-year-old gang member, rode up on a bicycle to a family gathered outside a home in Watts. He drew a revolver and opened fire, killing 14-month-old Angel Mauro Cortez Vega and wounding his 21-year-old father, Mauro Cortez. Dokins, authorities say, mistakenly believed the father was a member of a rival gang because of the color of his T-shirt. 

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Emeka Ike In Serious Mess Over Counterfeit Cheque, May Go To Jail

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Popular Nollywood star Emeka Ike is in serious scandal as we learnt, he may go to jail if he fails to rectified the issue as soon as possible.  The controversial former AGN president, we learnt is involved in a bounced cheque scandal that we learnt, may take a jury to get him out.

As the story goes, the actor who received a chieftaincy title in Egbonike, Anambra State and was recently made a Sports Ambassador for the newly launch project ‘RHYTHM and PLAY’ is in serious scandal, but this time, not in Nollywood nor power struggle, but a scam act that involves footballers.

Italian designers Dolce&Gabbana jailed 1 year and 8 months for tax evasion

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Italian fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, the men behind fashion power house, Dolce & Gabbana were today June 19th sentenced to one year and eight months in prison by an Italian court after being found guilty of tax evasion. They were also fined €500,000.

The multimillionaire designers were accused of hiding millions of euros from Italian tax authorities, charges they deny and have said they intend to appeal against any conviction.

Italian authorities are accusing them of moving their brand to a Luxembourg-based holding company Gado - in 2004, so they could avoid declaring taxes on royalties of about 1 billion euros.

The Italian authorities have been investigating the designers for about six years now and they were actually cleared of tax evasion/fraud charges at a previous trial in April 2011 but Italy's highest court overturned that ruling, ordering that the case be sent back to trial.

Their sentences have been suspended pending their appeal.

Chris Brown May Go To Jail

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Chris Brown is under criminal battery investigation. Remember that brawl between Chris and Frank Ocean last January outside a recording studio?  Law enforcement revealed shortly after the incident the case was closed, but it has been found out that's not the case. It was learned the L.A. County D.A.'s Office has an active file and is deciding whether to prosecute Brown for battery. It's interesting ... because Ocean never formally pressed charges.  Nonetheless ... the case is under review. It's possible the Brown/Ocean incident could come up today at Brown's probation review hearing.  Brown is supposed to be in court, and the judge could raise the issue because Chris was ordered to obey all laws.
Meanwhile, Brown is also being investigated for an alleged hit-and-run.

Angry judge sends Okotie’s former keyboardist to jail over FB posts

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An upset magistrate at the Ikeja Magistrate Court, Lagos, yesterday Thursday dispatched a former keyboardist of the Household of God Church, Dafiaghor Okiotor, to prison for contempt of court.

The magistrate, Mrs Oshodi Makanjuola, while accusing Mr. Okiotor of flouting her directives to desist from posting the court proceedings on social media; also announced that she is withdrawing from the case.

“I have two publications here,” Mrs. Makanjuola said, brandishing two pieces of paper.
“One is saying: Countdown to Reverend Okotie suit, let us find out if Okotie is too big to come to court. The other says: Hallelujah! Okotie Chris gets a dubious judgment…,” the magistrate read from the papers. “You even had the effrontery to publish my picture on a Sahara Reporters newspaper

Ms. Makanjuola called in the police to take Mr. Okiotor out of the court despite the defendant’s plea that she hears his own side of the story.

Court Sends 20 Students To Jail Over Murder of lecturer

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Twenty students of the Kogi State Polytechnic have been remanded in prison custody by a Lokoja Magistrates Court over rioting and murder of a senior lecturer of the institution, Mr Nathaniel Abimaje.

During the court session yesterday, the police prosecutor, Samuel Ikutanwa, told the court that on April 19, the accused persons incited some unidentified students of the institution to riot over the setting up of a panel to look into the case of a student who was involved in examination malpractice.

He told the court that the accused persons were armed with dangerous weapons such as axes, guns and cutlasses. He further alleged that the students went on rampage and stabbed Abimaje severally.

Lauryn Hill sentenced to three months in jail forTax Evasion nearly $1 million in earnings

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The rapper’s lawyer confirmed via email Monday that Hill paid more than $970,000 to satisfy tax liabilities.

Lauryn Hill pled guilty to tax evasion last year and her attorney claims she has since paid more than $970,000 to satisfy what she owed. However, a judge stated two weeks ago that the rapper has only paid $50,000.

Grammy-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in prison for failing to pay taxes on about $1 million in earnings.

She was also sentenced Monday in Newark to three additional months of homeconfinement.

The 37-year-old South Orange resident pleaded guilty last year in the case.

IBORI UPDATE: 13-yr jail term: UK court throws out Ibori’s appeal

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The British Royal Court of Justice on the Strand in London yesterday rejected an appeal by former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, to have his 13-year jail term for money laundering slashed.

Two justices of the appellate court dismissed Ibori’s appeal for want of merit. On April 2012, a Southwark Crown Court in South London jailed Ibori for 13 years for embezzling more than $250 million from the treasury of the Delta State between 1999 and 2007 when he served as governor.

Just like when he was sentenced, news agency said a retinue of his supporters thronged the courthouse wearing Tshirts calling for his freedom.

Hungry Man gets 6 months jail for stealing two Sweets

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Delvis Rodriguez-Ramos is a 21 year old homeless man who was very hungry. He walked into an Ocala store, located in Florida, and took a Twix and a Snickers bars.

An employee noticed the candy missing and he accused the homeless Rodriguez-Ramos of taking the candy. At first Rodriguez-Ramos denied taking anything, but then his guilty conscience made him return to the store and confess to taking Twix and Snickers bars which is worth about $2.