“He will be facing charges related to violations to the Immigration Act and he will appear in court on Monday”

•He promised to sponsor my education •Our mother traveled to Libya, father abandoned us By Dayo Johnson, Akure A 35-year old commercial motorcyclist, Ademola Adepetu, has been arrested for allegedly raping his lover’s 12-year old daughter. The victim who narrated her ordeal before an Akure Magistrate court said that she was locked inside a room […]

Norway aims to define rape on the basis of lack of consent, instead of the law’s current focus on violence, threats or taking advantage of a vulnerable person, according to a bill published Thursday.

Thousands of people rallied across South Africa on Tuesday in support of a seven-year-old girl allegedly raped at school last year and to demand justice for the child.

Two persons identified as John Moses, and Yakubu Mohammed, have been sentenced to death by hanging over a two-count charge of rape in Kaduna.

An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti has sentenced two teachers to 44 years imprisonment for raping minors.

A nurse, identified as Chiemela Nonye, has accused Chief Superintendent of Police Nkiruka Ugwu, attached to Area ‘M’ Command, Idimu, Lagos, of paying her to bear false witness in a rape case, alleging that the senior police officer is threatening to kill her, if she mentioned her name in an on-going investigation of rape, at the Area ‘D’ Command, Mushin.

The Kogi State Government has vowed to prosecute a 40-year-old man, Mr Elisha Daniel , accused of raping a 3-year-old girl, describing the act as “barbaric”.

Dominique Pelicot was on trial with 50 other men for Gisèle Pelicot rape. Among them are firefighters, lorry drivers, soldiers, security guards, a journalist and a DJ

Dominique Pelicot, 72, has admitted to drugging Gisele Pelicot for almost a decade so he and strangers he recruited online could rape her