Categories: News

Woman Docked For Making Noise In Court

A Sokoto State Chief Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday, admitted a 37-year-old woman, Aisha Mohammed, to bail in the sum of N50,000, after she was arraigned for making noise while a Chief Magistrate was sitting.

The police charged Mohammed with one count of obstructing a public officer in the discharge of his public functions.

Chief Magistrate Abubakar Adamu, who admitted the accused to bail, ordered that Mohammed must produce one surety in like sum.

Adamu adjourned the case until November 26, for hearing.

Earlier, the Prosecutor, Sgt. Abubakar Mohammed, had told the court that the offence was committed on November 7, at the Chief magistrates court III, Sokoto.

The prosecutor said that accused was said to have caused obstruction by making unnecessary noise while the presiding magistrate was conducting proceeding.

The prosecutor said that even after the chief magistrate ordered her to stop making noise, she refused.

He said that the offence contravened the provisions of Section 148 of the Penal Code.

Our Correspondent reports that whoever voluntarily obstructs a public officer in the discharge of his public functions shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine or with both.

 

(NAN)

Recent Posts

We Killed Enugu-Based Lawyer In Error – Police

The Kogi State Police Command has admitted the erroneous killing of a Nsukka-based lawyer, Barrister…

5 hours ago

PoS Operator Gets N500K Reward For Returning N9.9m Wrongly Transferred To His Account

The Kano State Police Command has returned the sum of N9.9 million to its rightful owner after…

8 hours ago

Tinubu Appoints Akande’s Daughter As NACA DG

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr. Temitope Ilori as the new Director General of the…

9 hours ago

Nigeria-Niger Border Reopening: Immigration Boss Directs Personnel To Resume Duty

The Comptroller-General of Immigration, Kemi Nandap, has directed all personnel deployed to the Nigeria-Niger border to…

10 hours ago

Osun Defender History Corner: March 14 In Focus

Today, on the history corner, we take a trip in the realm of flashbacks and…

10 hours ago

Nollywood Loses Another Veteran Actor

The Nollywood industry is again grieving after the passing of Jonathan Ihonde, the dramatist and…

10 hours ago

This website uses cookies.