Protest erupted at Babasanya-Araka, Area, Ede, Osun State, on Saturday after a Chief Imam simply identified as Kadiri was caught raping an eight-year-old girl (name withheld) after sending her on errand. According to The Nation, the incident occurred around 12 noon, when the girl’s mother was looking for her daughter, who had left home and…
A 45-year-old man, Ndukwe Ogbu, who claimed to be a pastor, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by the Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos. The conviction stemmed from his sexual abuse of his biological daughter on multiple occasions when she was just 14 years old. Delivering the judgment, Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe held…
Men of the Ondo state Police command have arrested a community head of Laaagba community, in Ondo East Local Government area of Ondo State, Ifedayo Adeniyi, over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old girl. The traditional head was arrested by the police in his residence in Ondo and was subsequently transferred to State Police Headquarters…
A Customary Court of Appeal sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, has sentenced Pastor Favour Okoise, General Overseer of Refiners Fire Global Assembly, to life imprisonment for raping a 16-years-old girl. Okoise committed the act on the minor whom he calls his ‘spiritual daughter’ between November and December 2016, in Calabar South Local Government Area….
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Monday sentenced bricklayer Azeez Shoderu to life imprisonment for defiling his neighbour’s eight-year-old daughter in a toilet. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Rahman Oshodi imposed the sentence after finding Shoderu guilty of the one-count charge of defilement brought against him by the…
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a man, Taofik Oladosu, to 14 years imprisonment for attempting to sexually assault a 12-year-old girl, (name withheld). The convict was sentenced following his plea bargain agreement to the amended one-count charge of attempted sexual assault by penetration. While delivering the…
A suspected rapist, Raji Ridwan, on Tuesday disclosed that cold weather lured him to attempt to rape a varsity female student in Osun State. Raji, 25, said he barged into the room of the 17-year-old 200-level student of Federal University of Health and Science on Thursday, May 29, after she declined an attempt to speak…
An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division on Monday sentenced a 33-year-old man, Olamilekan Ajewole, to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl. The court, however, discharged and acquitted a 25-year-old woman, Ayo Omoyajowo, of the crimes. The duo were arraigned for conspiracy and rape and arraigned on two count charge bordering on rape….
A 33-year-old man, identified as Chinazum Nwaubani, is in police custody for hacking a 14-year-old girl to coma in Obete Nchina Village, Ntighauzo community in Obingwa council area of Abia State for refusing his sexual advances. This was even as the father of the victim, Mr. Chijioke Anaba, alleged that the Police at the Eastern…
A man, Azeez Tajudeen, has been arraigned before an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for defiling a six-year-old girl (names withheld) now deceased. Tajudeen was arraigned on a two-count amended charge bordering on defilement and involuntary manslaughter by the Lagos State. The offences are contrary to Sections 137 and 224 and punishable under…