Butcher bags 30 days jail sentence for stealing goat

A Minna magistrate’s court in Niger State, yesterday, sentenced a butcher, Abdulrahman Umaru, to 30 days imprisonment for stealing a goat.
Umaru, 28, was earlier arraigned on a count charge of theft, contrary to Section 287 of the Penal Code.
In her ruling, Magistrate Amina Musa said the prosecution had proved its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt and that she had also taken note of the guilty plea of the accused.
Musa, therefore, convicted Umaru of the offence and sent