A 16-year-old female student of a government secondary school in Benin, Edo State, has recounted how she was kidnapped on her way home from school and trafficked to neighbouring countries. The teenager said the incident occurred on June 11, 2021, when she boarded a cab with two other young girls from school. According to her,...
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man, 37, bags life imprisonment for raping 13-year-old girl sent on errand
An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced a 37-year-old man, Samuel Adebamigbe, to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl. He was tried and found guilty on the charge of rape. The charge read, “That you, Samuel Adebamigbe, on November 3, 2020, at Ado Ekiti, within the jurisdiction of the court, did...
Humanitarian worker lures Borno 14-year-old IDP, rapes girl, victims stabs self, dies
A member of an international non-governmental organisation, Hussarf Abdurauf, 35, has been accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old Internally Displaced Person, Aishatu Adamu, in the Kaleri area of Maiduguri, Borno State. The humanitarian worker, who worked in the warehouse of the NGO in Maiduguri, called Adamu, who was in company of three other girls,...
43-year-old Man Arrested For Raping Octogenarian In Nasarawa
A 43-year-old man identified as Dan’asabe Eddo has been arrested by operatives of the Nasarawa State Police Command for allegedly raping an 80-year-old woman in the state. This was made known in a statement by police spokesperson in the state, Ramhan Nansel. The suspect, Eddo, who lives in Garaku in the Kokona Local Government Area...
40-year-old man nabbed over alleged defiling of daughter in Ekiti
Mr Emmanuel Bejide, a 40 year old Ekiti man has been remanded in the correctional center by the Ekiti state Magistrate Court, for allegedly defiling his daughter. The magistrate, Mojisola Salau granted the remand order as requested by the Police prosecutor, Sodiq Adeniyi, to enable him forward the duplicate case file to the office of...
Activist cries threat to life over 14-year-old’s rape case in FCT school
A child and gender rights advocate and leader of the Coalition of Gender Based Violence Responders, Lemmy Ughegbe, has filed a formal complaint against the Deputy Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Fom Pam Joseph, over an alleged threat to his life and family. The activist in the petition filed at the...
Court, not social media’ll determine Baba Ijesa’s fate –Counsel
Bisi Oridate, one of the lawyers representing embattled actor, James Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesa, has said that the court, not social media would eventually decide whether the actor is innocent or guilty of the charges of child molestation and others preferred against him. Oridate, who is the Head of Chambers of Babatunde Ogala and Co,...
Baba Ijesha granted N2m bail, released to lawyer
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, on Thursday, granted embattled Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju Omiyinka, aka Baba Ijesha, bail in the sum of N2m. Omiyinka was re-arraigned before the court on six counts bordering on rape, sexual assault and abuse of a minor. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. UGAMATV had reported...
Sexual assault: Court grants Baba Ijesha bail
Embattled Yoruba actor, Omiyinka Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, who was arraigned at a Special Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja, has been granted bail. The actor, who was being tried by Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo over charges bothering on rape, sexual assault and abuse of a minor, was granted bail on the...
Man, 35, defiles two-year-old daughter, sexually harasses maid in Lagos
A 35-year-old man, Kingsley Achugbu, has been arrested by police operatives attached to the Festac Division of the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly defiling his two-year-old daughter and sexually harassing his wife’s maid. A statement by the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, said the maid reported the matter to the police, adding...
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