A Makurdi Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 34-year-old native doctor and driver, who resides Behind Mobile Barracks, Makurdi, Benue State for allegedly defiling a minor who came for treatment. The Magistrate, Mr. Vincent Kor, didn’t take Iordye Edwin’s plea for want of jurisdiction. Kor ordered that the defendant...
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The house belonging to a 22-year-old suspected internet fraudster, Ifeanyi Osuji has been burnt down by an irate mob in Imo state. The incident happened in Umuduruewuewuru, Umuezeala Nsu in the Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of Imo state on Monday morning after youths alleged that he reportedly defiled and...
Popular Ghanaian actress, Juliet Ibrahim has revealed that she was raped by one of her ex-lovers. The beautiful actress, who didn’t name the ex in an interview with Nigerian media personality Chude Jideonwo, disclosed that she was pinned down by the ex lover and raped even though she never...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Sokoto State Police Command has paraded a 65 years old man, identified as Ibrahim Adamu Magana for allegedly defiling two minors aged 10 and 9 within Sokoto Cinema area of Sokoto North LGA of the state. Narrating the incident that led to Magana’s...
The Lagos State Government has warned that sharing or receiving images depicting child pornography is an offense under its laws that can attract a sentence of up to 14 years. The warning comes amid reports that some students of Chrisland schools were involved in a case of alleged sexual...
A High Court in Lagos on Tuesday ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominnikoron, be remanded in a correctional centre. The Lagos State Government charged Ominnikoron with four counts bordering on conspiracy, murder and rape. Justice Sherifat Sonaike ordered that the defendant be remanded in the...
A Yaba Magistrates’ court in Lagos on Friday, ordered that a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Omininikoron, be remanded for 30 days in Ikoyi custodial centre for alleged murder and rape of 22-year-old girl, Oluwabamise Ayankole. Details coming soon….
A medical doctor, Mistura Shogunle, on Wednesday narrated before an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how a 13-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven men in her neighbourhood. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Shogunle testified at the trial of a 20-year-old fashion designer, Rasheed...
A Kenyan woman, Edda Wakesho, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for filming herself sexually molesting a 4-year-old boy and posting it online. The 21-year-old househelp in Kiembeni Estate, Mombasa, filmed herself engaging in the act with the minor and later posted it online for financial gain. On Wednesday,...
Pakistani court on Thursday, sentenced a U.S. national of Pakistani origin to death for raping and beheading the daughter of a former diplomat, crimes that sparked outrage across the South Asian nation. The body of Noor Mukadam, 27, was found in Islamabad on July 20. Police charged Zahir Jaffer,...
An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Tuesday remanded a pastor with the Royal World Embassy Church, Rufus Olatunji, for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old member. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs F.M. Kayode, who did not take Olatunji’s plea, ordered that Olatunji he should be remand at Ikoyi Correctional...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Network of Civil Society Organisations, Borno State Chapter (NECSOB) has condemned in strong term the murder of 14 year old female IDP Aisha Umar, who was allegedly raped and stabbed to death by an NGO official, Huzaifa Adam in Maiduguri. The deceased, who...
Italy’s highest court has upheld former Brazil forward Robinho’s nine-year sentence for the gang rape of a young woman, the victim’s lawyer said on Wednesday. Judges at the Court of Cassation in Rome confirmed the sentence for the offence which dates back to January 2013, when the 37-year-old was...
Popular microblogging and social networking service, Twitter has deleted Shatta Wale’s tweet where he seemingly admitted ‘engaging in rape’ while having a face-off with Nigerian music star, Burna Boy. Recalled that the Ghanaian singer has tweeted “Because he is a rapist, He is jealous I did same to his girl....
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has said there is an increase in the number of complaints of abuses, particularly as it concerns rape of women and abuse of children in Abia. Mrs Uche Nwokocha, the Abia Coordinator of NHRC, disclosed this on Friday in Umuahia on the commemoration...
A nurse who raped and impregnated a severely disabled woman in his care has been jailed for 10 years in the US State of Arizona, local media reported Friday. Nathan Sutherland admitted sexually abusing his then-29-year-old patient at the facility in Phoenix, where she had been cared for since...
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ogun State has arrested a 65-year-old man, Rojaiye Balogun, who allegedly raped his 17-year-old daughter. The NSCDC Commandant, Mr Kolawole Taiwo, who paraded the suspect on Thursday in Abeokuta, said the case was reported to the Anti-Human Trafficking, Irregular Migration...