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The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has halted payment of federal allocations to the Rivers State Government in compliance with a court judgement, just as the Court of Appeal in Abuja heard the appeal challenging the verdict on Friday. A three-member panel of the Court of Appeal led by Hamma Barka, on […]
A teenager who received 16 years’ jail for killing his schoolmate with an axe at Singapore’s River Valley High School lost his appeal on Wednesday and did not get any reduction in his imprisonment term. The teenager, who turned 19 this year and cannot be named as he was 16 at the time of the […]
A Hong Kong court has rejected a man’s attempt to appeal his conviction and six-year prison term for attempting to seize a police officer’s gun during a protest in 2019. The High Court. File photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Woo Tsz-kin’s leave to appeal application was turned down by three judges from the Court of Appeal on […]