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A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, presided by Justice Ekerete Akpan, has convicted 21 foreign nationals over high-level cybercrime, fining each of them one million Naira.Justice Akpan, while delivering judgment on the plea bargain reached between the convicts and the Nigeria Police Force, ordered their immediate departure from Nigeria within six working days.The judge

A London-based Nigerian woman, Cynthia Chia, has been ordered by a UK High Court to pay £25,000 in damages to Idowu Ogunkanmi, a Nigerian-born businessman based in Dubai, after she falsely accused him of rape and launched a vicious nine-year campaign of harassment. The two, having first and only once met under the circumstances of

The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO) announced that it had issued CAD 151,000 ($108,542) in penalties to Great Canadian Entertainment for alleged failures at three of its casinos. The fine was prompted by four separate occasions in which the casino company’s properties are said to have failed to prevent minors from gambling. Great

Channels Television has been fined N5 million by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over an interview with Datti Baba-Ahmed, Labour Party Vice Presidential candidate.In a March 27 letter addressed to Channels Chief Executive Officer and obtained on Friday in Abuja, the NBC said the television station violated broadcasting code.Titled “Broadcast of an Inciting Interview...