A middle-aged woman, Uzoamaka Okoli, on Monday told Enugu State High Court sitting in Enugu how one Obinna Ogianya allegedly raped her under Trans-Ekulu Bridge and collected her N250. Narrating the incident before Justice E.M Egumgbe, Okoli said she was on her way to work around 5.30 am on May 28, 2019, when the defendant […]

By James Ogunnaike, Abeokuta Men of the Ogun State Police Command on Sunday arrested one Adesina Adebowale for forcefully having unlawful carnal knowledge of a 60-year-old woman (name withheld). The suspect, according to a statement by the command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested following a complaint lodged at Idanyin divisional headquarters by the son of […]

A police officer on Tuesday pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping of 33-year-old Sarah Everard. Everard, who disappeared while walking home in South London in early March, sparked a nationwide debate about crime against women. Everard’s body was found more than a week later in woodland in Kent, some 80 kilometres from where the Londoner […]

A 14-year-old girl who was allegedly gang-raped by seven suspected cultists at Ogboli village in Issele-Uku, Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State has narrated her ordeal in the hands of her rapists.

A 49-year-old man, Ubong Williams Akpan, was on the 2nd of April 2021 arrested by men of Ogun State Police command, for unlawfully having carnal knowledge of his 12 years old daughter (name withheld).

An Okada man (Cyclist) whose name was given as Ifeanyi Nwosu, yesterday was paraded by the Imo State police command, for the alleged rape of his passenger, a 21-year-old girl, Confidence Agoabuike.

By Onozure Dania A 22-year-old man, Ebuka Nwobodo and his parents were Tuesday arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in Ebute- Metta, over alleged conspiracy to rape a six-year-old girl. The defendant and his parents Juliet Nwobodo 45 and Boniface Nwobodo 57, are facing a two-count charge, bordering on conspiracy and defilement, preferred against […]

… bags life imprisonment Dayo Johnson An Akure High Court has sentenced one Kolawole Apoti to life imprisonment for having sex with his teenage niece and three other girls. His niece was said to have lured other teenage girls to his house where he forcefully had sex with them and gave them N100 afterwards. The […]

A couple, Juliet and Boniface, who allegedly aided their son, Ebuka Nwobodo, to defile a minor, were, on Wednesday, brought before an Ebute Meta Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos. The couple was arraigned on a charge of conspiracy, while Ebuka appeared on a two-count charge of conspiracy and defilement. However, they all pleaded not guilty […]

The family of a 14-year old boy detained by police since Feb. 5, in spite of court order to release him, on Tuesday called on the National Assembly to intervene in the matter. The family, in the petition written by its lawyer, Ishaka Dikko, SAN, and sent to the I-G; the Chairman, PSC; the Chairman, […]