{"id":10832,"date":"2026-11-06T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/man-jailed-three-years-for-stealing-streetlight-in-ogun\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T09:45:44","slug":"man-jailed-three-years-for-stealing-streetlight-in-ogun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/06\/man-jailed-three-years-for-stealing-streetlight-in-ogun\/","title":{"rendered":"Man jailed three years for stealing streetlight in Ogun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man, Anthony Cephas, has been sentenced to three years\u2019 imprisonment for stealing a solar-powered streetlight along the Sagamu Interchange Expressway in Ogun State.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Ogun State Police Public Relations Officer, Oluseyi Babaseyi, disclosed this in a statement, saying detectives attached to the Sagamu Division arrested the convict on October 30, 2026.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the suspect was arrested at about 9pm in the Mayegun area of Sagamu, with the stolen streetlight and its solar panel recovered.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetectives of Sagamu Division, Ogun State Police Command, have arrested and prosecuted a 26-year-old man, Anthony Cephas, securing his conviction and subsequent sentencing to three years\u2019 imprisonment for stealing a solar-powered streetlight along the Sagamu Interchange Expressway,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Babaseyi said the arrest followed an investigation into the theft, adding that the recovered streetlight and solar panel were taken as exhibits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect was arrested on 30 October 2026 at about 9:00 p.m. in the Mayegun area of Sagamu, with the stolen streetlight and its solar panel recovered as exhibits,\u201d the statement added.\n<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspect was subsequently arraigned before a court, convicted and sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing diligent investigation, he was arraigned before a court on 2 November 2026, where he was convicted and sentenced to three years\u2019 imprisonment,\u201d the statement said.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man, Anthony Cephas, has been sentenced to three years\u2019 imprisonment for stealing a solar-powered streetlight along the Sagamu Interchange Expressway in Ogun State. The Ogun State Police Public&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}