A Mararaba Upper Area Court in Nasarawa State yesterday ordered that a 21-year-old phone repairer, Michael Adeku, be given 22 strokes of the cane for stealing four litres of palm oil. Adeku, a ...

Karmo Grade 1 Area Court, Abuja, has ordered that an 18-year-old pupil, Mudasiru Ibrahim, be given six strokes of the cane for joint act, criminal force and causing grievous hurt. Ibrahim, of Angwa ...

A Sharia Court sitting at Magajin Gari, Kaduna, on Monday ordered that one Shuaibu Umar be given 80 strokes of cane for calling his sister-in-law, Suwaiba Abdulkadir, a prostitute. Abdulkadir, who had ...

PUTRAJAYA: A labourer who pleaded guilty to raping a civil servant twice and unlawfully entering her home has been sentenced to 33 years in prison and 20 strokes of the cane. The Court of Appeal, in a ...

SINGAPORE (AP) — Singapore sentenced a Swiss man to three strokes of a cane and five months in prison today for spray-painting a subway car, reinforcing the city-state’s reputation for severely ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A Japanese hairstylist has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison and 20 strokes of the cane in Singapore this week for what the judge described as a “brutal and cruel” ...