A Chief Magistrate Court sitting in Mapo, Ibadan has sentenced a scavenger, Fatai Abiodun,18,  to two weeks imprisonment for unlawfully entering into a house with the intension to steal abandoned metallic objects.

The Magistrate, Mrs O.O. Latunji, in her judgement, held that Abiodun was convicted and sentenced  based on the evidence available to her and his guilty plea.

Latunji, however, warned the convict not to go back into any act of criminality after completing his sentence.

She also ordered him to pay N5,000 as restitution for damaging the complainant’s wristwatch.

The prosecutor, Insp Oluseye Akinola, had told the court that the convict committed the crime on April 25, at Iyemetu-Adeyo area, Ibadan, Oyo State.

Akinola stated that Abiodun, who earned his living as a scavenger, gained entry into the compound of one Rukayat George through the drainage  of the house.

He said that the convict had sighted some abandoned scraps through the drainage and made frantic efforts to get them.

“The convict was pulling out other minor obstacles preventing him from gaining entry when George noticed that something was happening.

“On getting to the scene, George asked what Abiodun was doing;  instead, the latter attempted to escape causing the former to raise an alarm.

“Abiodun’s attempt to escape led to the damage of the wristwatch worn by the complainant before he was taken to the Iyemetu Police Station,” the prosecutor said.

Akinola said that the offence contravene the provisions of Section 412 of the Criminal Code Cap. 38 vol ii law of Oyo State, 2000.

 An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded a 74- year-old man, Aderinsola Addiths, in Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his neighbours ‘s teenage daughter.

Addiths a retiree, who resides at No. 1, Rafatu St., Balogun area, Iju Ishaga, Lagos is standing trial for defilement.

The Chief Magistrate, Mrs O.

O Kushanu refused to listen to the accused plea, and ordered him to be remanded in the Kirikiri Correctional Centre until May 20 pending advice from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP).

The Prosecutor, ASP Adegoke Ademigbuji told the court that the offence was committed sometimes in 2024 and February 2025 at the accused residence.

Ademigbuji said that the victim, a 13-year-old girl was sent to buy sachet water by the accused and upon her arrival, he shut the door after her.

The prosecutor said that the septuagenarian defiled the girl.

The offence according to the prosecutor contravened section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

Housing, income, education, and other social conditions have a greater impact on health than genetics or the quality of health-care systems, according to a new World Health Organisation (WHO) study.

The research, set to be presented and live-streamed from Geneva on Tuesday, found that social determinants such as poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to resources account for more than 50 per cent of health outcomes.

These “social determinants of health equity” include the environments in which people are born, live, work, and age, as well as their access to power, money, and opportunity.

“These factors create unjust and avoidable health gaps,” said WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

“Billions of people face higher risks of illness and death simply because of the conditions they’re born into or the social groups they belong to.”

Tedros emphasised that much of the global disease and mortality burden was preventable, calling health inequity a result of political and social decisions that global leaders had the power to change