Court remands Polytechnic dropout for ‘presenting self as a lawyer’

A certain Adebowale Babatunde, 41, was on Friday remanded in Ilesha Correctional Center for allegedly presenting himself as a lawyer before an Osun State Magistrate Court 6 in Osogbo. Babatunde (defendant) was arraigned on two-counts bordering on false pretence and unlawfully possession of Call-to-the-Bar certificates before Magistrate Olusegun Ayilara of Osogbo Magistrates’ Court. Police Prosecutor,…

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A Man charged with impersonation sentenced to three years imprisonment

An Ota Chief Magistrates’ Court in Ogun on Tuesday, sentenced a 38-year-old man, Olaniyi Oni, to three years in a correctional centre for impersonating in a matrimonial suit. The Chief Magistrate, O.I. Oke, sentenced Mr. Oni to three years imprisonment without an option of fine. Mr. Oke said that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable…

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