Court remands student for impregnating 16-year-old girl

A Magistrates Court in Minna, Niger state on Friday ordered that a 20-year-old student, Babangida Husseini, who allegedly impregnated a 16-year-old girl be remanded in prison.

The police had charged Husseini on two counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a child and impregnating a student.

Magistrate Mariam Kings ordered the case adjourned until July 16 for the prosecution to call its witnesses, even though Husseini pleaded guilty to the charge..

Kings held that the adjournment is to enable the police present more evidences to establish its case considering the gravity of the offence.

Prosecution counsel, Aliyu Yakubu told the court that the father of the girl, Bilyaminu Musa, filed a petition on June 7 alleging that the defendant had sex with his daughter, an SS2 student of Government Day Secondary School, Chanchaga, Minna and impregnated her.

The offence he said, contravenes the provisions of Sections 18 (2) and 25 (3) of the Child Rights Law of Niger state.