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Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions

August 18, 2025

40-year-old man remanded over alleged defilement of 15-year-old girl

The magistrate didn’t take the defendant’s plea.

Scales of justice
February 26, 2024

Court remands artisan for defiling 11-year-old girl

The prosecutor said the offence contravened section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.

Court
February 15, 2024
Gavel used to illustrate the story
December 8, 2023

Truck driver remanded for causing pedestrian’s death in Lagos

The truck driver is standing trial on a four-count charge bordering on reckless driving, driving without a licence and killing a pedestrian.

Gavel
October 20, 2023

Blunt force trauma caused Bamise’s death, pathologist tells court

The pathologist also said there was a fracture on the bone above the ear, and bruises were also found on both lips of the deceased.

Oluwabamise Ayanwole
October 11, 2023

Pipeline vandals convicted of killing SSS officers in Lagos

He held that the prosecution proved that the two defendants participated in the ambush of the SSS operatives.

SSS Officers (Credit: Premium Times)
August 28, 2023

Lagos: Woman, five others remanded for murder, armed robbery

The prosecutor said the defendants burgled the house of one Ismaila Bakare, where they robbed with different weapons.

IKEJA MAGISTRATE
December 19, 2022

Femi Olaleye suffering from sex addiction; said our child would have been victim, wife tells court

The embattled MD of Optical Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye, is charged with defiling his wife’s 16-year-old niece.

MD of Optical Cancer Care Foundation, Femi Olaleye