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A 40-year-old driver, Felix Ibe, on Tuesday appeared in a Wuse Zone Six Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly assaulting and biting a Federal Road Safety Corps ( FRSC) official. The police charged Ibe, who resides at opposite St. Matthew Catholic Church, Karmo, Abuja, with two counts of assault and causing grievous hurt. The Prosecution Counsel, ASP Peter Ejike, told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Aug. 5, on the Herbert Macaulay Way, Wuse Zone 5, Abuja.

A barrage of reactions has been pouring in from Nigerians to the recent judgement by an Upper Shari’a Court in Kano on Monday which sentenced a 22-year-old singer, Yahaya Aminu Sharif, to death by hanging for blaspheming the Holy Prophet of Islam (PBUH). Most ‘Netizens’ tagged the judgement as being barbaric and out of place, while some agreed with the court ruling. Bashir Ahmad, President Buhari’s media aide, shared a tweet in 2015, supporting the death penalty for blasphemy which he described as his “belief”.

An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday ordered that an 18-year-old teenager, Tobi Ogunrinde, who allegedly defiled his neighbour’s seven-year-old daughter, be remanded in a correctional centre. According to Daily Independent, Chief Magistrate P.E. Nwaka, who did not take the plea of Ogunrinde, ordered that he should be remanded in the Nigerian Correctional Service in Kirikiri, pending legal advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).