•Bandits People of Ukwonyo community in the Ufia Kingdom of Ado Local Government Area in Benue State have raised concerns over ongoing attacks and harassment faced by women at the hands of armed invaders in their farmlands. The community members expressed worry yesterday, saying that the persistent threat has created fear among residents, maki...
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Muslim cleric (Alfa), Alani Rafiu, to life imprisonment for raping a 14 –year- old girl inside a mosque. Justice Rahman Oshodi handed down the sentence yesterday after finding Rafiu guilty of the offence of child defilement, reports NAN. Rafiu was arraigned on October 28, [&h...
•Rape An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 71 years old man, Sule Adeola, to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl. The defendant was charged to court on June 22, 2023, on a one-count charge bordering on rape, reports The PUNCH. The charge read, “That Sule Adeola on 2nd June […]
The Osun State Police Command has arrested a commercial motorcyclist, popularly known as Okada rider, Jacob Damilare, for allegedly unlawfully having carnal knowledge of a female passenger who had engaged his services on the campus of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. The victim, whose name was not disclosed, was on her way to M...
•Late Rumaisa A Kano State Magistrates’ court sitting in No-Man’s land has ordered the remand of a chemist owner accused of raping a nine-year-old girl in prison. The state counsel, Barrister Zainab Aliko, told the court that the chemist owner, Manniru Ibrahim Fanisau, allegedly raped the victim, Rumaisa Sadiq, when she was brought to him [&he...
•Rape Justice T. N . Nzeukwu of the Imo State High Court has convicted and sentenced a pastor, Desmond Eke, to eight years imprisonment for raping his church member’s wife. Eke, the founder of Deliverance Ministry of the Good Shepherd, Umuehieta Avu, Owerri West Local Government Area of Imo State was found guilty of taking […]
A court in Pakistan’s conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has sentenced a man(name withheld) to life imprisonment for raping and kidnapping his underage wife, the victim’s lawyer said today. “This is the first decision of its kind in the province,” the lawyer, Mian Safeer, said. The decision was announced by a court that deals with cases ...
•Police The police in Lagos have recorded a breakthrough by arresting eight members of a vicious gang of criminals that specialize in subjecting their victims to several hours of anal sex after dispossessing them of their properties and cash. The arrest, said to be one of the biggest successes of detectives recently, under the watchful [&helli...
Operatives of a neighbourhood security outfit, Oluyole Security Network have arrested a bricklayer and an operator of a commercial motorcycle otherwise called okada for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old teenager in Ibadan, Oyo. One of the suspects, Sodeeq Ojediran, admitted forcibly sleeping with the girl. According to report, th...
•Rape The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kwara State Command, on Monday, arrested a 51-year-old man, Idowu Mahmud, for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl said to be his wife’s cousin. The sexual assault was alleged to have been perpetrated in November 2023 at Gbaagba area, off Airport Road in Ilorin West Local Government Area [&hel...
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