Ibadan – The General Overseer (GO) of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, says he and his prayer warriors will not rest in prayers until the perpetrators of rape are accorded stiffer penalty. Adeboye said during a live programme on DOVE TV, monitored in Ibadan on Sunday, that the issue of […]
Wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr (Mrs.) Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu on Thursday called on Nigerian men to replicate the ongoing massive anti-racism protest in United States in Nigeria against sexual and gender-based violence to send a strong message against rape and its perpetrators. Speaking while receiving participants at a special All-Male awareness walk organized by the […]
Lagos – Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of Igbosere High Court in Lagos, on Wednesday, sentenced two men, Williams Udoh and Ubong Isaiah, to death by hanging for armed robbery and rape. She also sentenced Udoh to 21 years imprisonment for raping a married woman during their robbery operation. The duo had been arraigned by the Lagos […]
The wife of the Oyo state governor, Mrs. Tamunominini Makinde, has called for stiffer laws that will protect the girl-child against rape and other forms of sexual violence. Media officer to the governor’s wife, Mr. Sunday Ogundare, in a statement on Tuesday in Ibadan, said that Mrs. Makinde made the call on the occasion of […]
Warr i(Delta) – The Police in Warri, Delta, have apprehended a cleric over an alleged rape of a 19-year-old girl (name withheld). The Warri Area Commander of the Police Force, Mohammed Garba, disclosed this to newsmen on Monday in Warri. Garba said the suspect, (name withheld) was nabbed on June 5, adding that he had […]
Far too many things break the heart about Nigeria. There is the grinding poverty that robs citizens of dignity; pervasive insecurity, which has turned nearly everyone into jittery refugees in their own country and the combination of many other factors gradually taking humanity away from Nigerians. That, which has stifled fellow feeling, made enemies of […]
*Assures that perpetrators will be brought to book The Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu has deployed additional investigation aids and forensic support to Edo state Police Command to unravel the circumstances surrounding the brutal rape and death of Miss Vera Uwaila Omosuwa. According to the police chief, the deployment was part of a deliberate […]
A 15 year-old boy who was caught defiling a 6-year-old boy has been arrested by the police. According to a Legal Practitioner, Abdullateef who shared photos of the boy via his twitter page, the boy lured the 6-year-old into an uncompleted building where he committed the dastardly act. He wrote, ”This filthy, despicable, loathsome, vile […]
The Police Command in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has arrested a 43-year-old man for allegedly defiling his 15-year-old daughter in Lugbe area of Abuja. The Commissioner of Police in FCT, Mr Bala Ciroma, disclosed on Friday this at a media briefing in Abuja. Ciroma said the suspect was mentally stable and had confessed to […]
The president personal assistant on new media, Bashir Ahmed has been called out on Twitter for commenting on Yunusa Yellow’s saga. The 24-year-old, who tweeted in hausa promising to influence Yunusa Yellow’s judgement said he commented without knowing and understanding the details of the case. See Nigerians tweet,
The national agency for the prohibition of trafficking in persons has decried the increasing cases of r.a.p.e, incest and domestic abuse among Nigerians during the stay-at-home order due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The NAPTIP Director-General, Julie Okah-Donli, said this in an interview with journalists in Abuja during the distribution of palliatives to orphanages and other […]
Four men were executed on Friday for the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman in the Indian capital in 2012. The men were hanged to death in Delhi’s Tihar Jail, a jail official confirmed. A lone hangman carried out the executions after courts rejected last-minute pleas by the convicts’ lawyers, with the […]
An Ikeja High Court on Thursday sentenced a former part-time lecturer with the University of Lagos (Unilag), Akin Baruwa, to 21 years’ imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old admission seeker. Justice Josephine Oyefeso while sentencing 45-year-old Baruwa, described his action as heinous, holding that the sentence should serve as a deterrent to others. NAF holds counter-insurgency […]
The police on Monday arraigned two men, John Ayika, 48, and Olatunji Olasesan 52, in a Chief Magistrates Court in Surulere, Lagos for allegedly raping a 16-year-old girl. The defendants, who reside at Mushin area of Lagos, pleaded not guilty to rape. READ ALSO: Police nab 6 for allegedly burning D-G’s car in Niger The […]
A Kogi High Court sitting in Lokoja has sentenced a 23-year old man, Okwudili Ayogu, to 10 years imprisonment for raping the daughter of his master. In his judgment delivered on Monday in Lokoja, Justice Nasir Ajanah, Chief Judge of Kogi, who presided over the matter, found the defendant guilty of the singular charge of […]
The four men who lured 23-year-old physiotherapy student Jyoti Singh and her friend onto a bus in Delhi, India then gang-raped and tortured her will be hanged. READ ALSO: Woman sells husband for £12 to buy children new clothes Four men convicted of gang raping and murdering a woman on a bus in Delhi have […]
Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, said that the arrest Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare in a courtroom on Friday ‘is unacceptable’ and that ‘it is a rape on the sanctity of the court.’ Atiku in a statement on Friday decried the way the Department of State Service (DSS), on Friday, […]
New Delhi – Police on Thursday said that a 23-year-old woman, who was allegedly raped was set on fire while going to court in northern India, and is currently battling for her life. The Police added that the woman in Uttar Pradesh state’s Unnao district was on her way to attend a hearing in the […]
Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege, on Monday called for tougher laws against rape and sexual abuse in Nigeria .
Kaduna – A housewife, Fatima Ishaq, on Wednesday in Kaduna dragged her husband, Hassan Haruna, before a Sharia Court in Kaduna, over alleged rape. The petitioner who lives with her estranged husband within Kaduna metropolis, through her counsel, M.S. Abdullahi, told the court that she can not continue living with Haruna. Abdullahi said that his […]