A Kano State High Court presided over by Justice Maryam Sabo on Friday, jailed one Shamsu Adamu to 14 years imprisonment with sundry work in a correctional centre for defiling girl. The convict, Adamu, an adult resident of Kunture in Ungogo Local Government Area, was found guilty of rape contrary to section 283 of the…
A 41-year-old car cleaner, Ezekiel Udoh has been sentenced to life imprisonment for defiling and impregnating his neighbor’s granddaughter, aged 12. His judgement was ruled by Justice Rahman Oshodi in an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court. According to Rahman while imposing his sentence, he said, “A child was forced to bear a child,…
The Ogun state police command has confirmed the arrest of a 33-year-old man, Olayemi Shedrack who has been on its wanted list, and was allegedly said to have been responsible for the rape of some female students of the state-owned Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun after robbing them of valuables. According to a statement…
A South African serial rapist – who assaulted children as young as nine years old – has received 42 life sentences and 791 years imprisonment for 94 counts of rape. Nkosinathi Phakathi was convicted of 90 counts of rape – attacks that he carried out between 2012 and 2021. The 40-year-old sometimes made children watch…
A man, Daniel Amaso, has been sentenced to life in prison by a Bayelsa State high court sitting in Yenagoa for raping a 17-year-old pre-degree student of the state-owned Niger Delta University in Amassoma. The convict was arraigned for forcefully entering the 17-year-old apartment in Amassoma community, Southern Ijaw LGA, with a knife. He was…
The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a stepfather, Chibuzor Benjamin, along with two others for allegedly defiling his wife’s 12-year-old daughter (name withheld) in the Ago Okota area of the state. The spokesperson for the command, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest on Saturday, stating that two other individuals, Emmanuel Okechukwu and Sunday Akpan, were…
A Magistrate Court sitting in Akure has ordered the remand of a 31-year-old Pastor of Cherubim and Seraphim Church, Victor Oluwasegun, to a correctional center for impregnating a 15- year old girl. The Pastor was said to have also impregnated five other young girls in the family way. Oluwasegun was said to have had unlawful…
A commercial motorcyclist, Jacob Damilare, has been arrested by the Osun State Police Command for having unlawful carnal knowledge of a female passenger, who engaged his services on the campus of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. The victim, whose name was not disclosed, while going to Moro, reportedly engaged the services of Damilare from the OAU…
A Kano Magistrate Court sitting in No-man’s-land area in Sabon Garri has ordered the remand of a chemist for allegedly raping a nine-year-old girl in a correctional center. The State Counsel, Barrister Zainab Aliko, told the court that the Chemist, Manniru Ibrahim Fanisau, is being accused of raping the deceased, Rumaisa Sadiq, when she was…
An Osogbo-based cleric, identified as Femi has been accused of having non-consensual s3x and impregnating his stepdaughter when she was 13 years of age. The allegations were brought against Femi by his 16-year-old stepdaughter, name (withheld). The victim, aged 16, had approached a Non-Governmental Organisation, the World Institute for Peace, to seek Alternative Dispute Resolution….