An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court on Thursday ordered that a 29-year-old Ugochukwu Okafor, who allegedly defiled his 12-year-old stepdaughter, tobe remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Centre. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp Donjour Perezi, told the court that Okafor committed the offence sometime in 2021, in his residence at Oworonshoki. Perezi said that the defendant defiled his 12- year-old […]
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A 19-year-old girl in Sudan who was sentenced to death by a court on Thursday for murdering her husband after he tried to rape her, has called on President Omar Al-Bashir to pardon her as she was forced into a child marriage, and had acted in self-defence. Noura Hussein says her father made her contractually […]
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The Management of Chrisland School on Tuesday sought to protect its brand and reputation in a letter to parents as the news of the defilement of a two year, 11 month old female pupil, by its supervisor went viral. The story captured courtroom proceedings on Monday of the trial of Adegboyega Adenekan, the school’s supervisor, […]
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The prosecution for Lagos State on Thursday at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, stalled the trial of Adegboyega Adenekan, 47, the Chrisland School supervisor charged with raping a two-year-old pupil. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that proceedings did not hold as scheduled, due to a typographical error in the additional evidence […]
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The Katsina Emirate Council has suspended Bishir Bala Kofar-bai from his post of ‘Magatakarda’ pending the determination of a criminal litigation against him. The Secretary of the council, Bello Ifo, said in a statement on Thursday that the suspension is with immediate effect. Kofar-bai was standing trial for an allegedly rape of a 15-year-old girl […]
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