The police in Lagos have commenced investigation into the alleged rape of a 20-year-old female student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, by a lecturer in the institution. Sources said the survivor (name withheld), a 300-level student of the university, reported the matter to the police on Aug. 28. “She alleged that on Aug….
The police in Anambra State, Nigeria’s South-east, say they have arrested two suspects over alleged rape of two girls in separate incidents in the state. The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. How the incidents happened In one of the cases, Mr Ikenga, a superintendent of police,…
An Ikorodu Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday, ordered the remand of a 40-year-old man, Lekan Adebeshin, in a correctional centre for allegedly defiling a 15- year-old girl. Adebeshin, whose address was not provided, is standing trial on a three-count charge bordering on felony to wit defilement, unlawful deal and threat to life. The Chief Magistrate,…
The Gombe State Police Command said its operatives in Zambuk Division in Yamaltu Deba local government area have arrested a 54-year-old ward head, Mohammed Tukur of Sabon Gari Village for allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl identified as Zulei Malam Dahiru. Police spokesperson in the state, DSP Buhari Abdullahi, said in a statement that the victim…
Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development has lauded the 21-year prison sentence handed down to Ahmadu Yaro, who was convicted of raping a three-month-old baby in Adogi village, Nasarawa State. In a statement on Tuesday, Minister Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim described the ruling by Chief Judge of Nasarawa State, Justice Aisha Bashir-Aliyu, as a courageous…
A court in Madagascar has sentenced a man to surgical castration for the rape of a child in 2024, a judicial official said, in the first such measure on the Indian Ocean island. The case arose from the rape and attempted murder of a six-year-old girl in Imerintsiatosika, a municipality 30 km west of the…
Magistrate Martins Akinyemi of an Abeokuta Magistrate’s Court, yesterday, ordered a 24-year-old man, Michael Oyejide, remanded in Ibara Prison custody for allegedly raping his 18-year-old friend, Morenike Ajayi, to death. The prosecutor, Cpl Moshood Hammer, told the court that the accused and one other at large, committed the offence on January 8, at Ijeja in…
Iranian authorities carried out on Saturday a public execution of a man convicted of raping and murdering a young girl, the judiciary said. The victim’s family, from the northwestern city of Bukan, had been involved in the legal proceedings and requested the public execution, according to the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website. “The case was…
A pastor, Simon Okehielem, popularly known as Ebube Wonder, has been remanded in custody by an Edo State High Court following his arraignment over the alleged rape of a married woman and fathering a child as a result of the incident. The case, prosecuted by the Edo State Police Command, stems from a March 2024…
The Osun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of a cleric identified simply as Kadiri, who is alleged to have sexually assaulted an eight-year-old girl in the Babasanya-Araka area of Ede. According to police spokesperson SP Abiodun Ojelabi, officers were dispatched to the area after receiving a report of the incident. He said the…