By Abisola Oluremi A 15-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted by her sixty-five-year-old stepfather and his sixty-year-old younger brother at Olude, Apata area of Ibadan, the Oyo State capital The incident took several days before the investigation was completed and the case was Continue Reading
A nurse, Oluchi Nwoke-Okoi, has told an Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court how an Arabic teacher, Farouk Adam, allegedly inserted his finger in the private parts of nine pupils, aged between seven and thirteen years. Farouk faces a nine-count charge bordering on sexual assault. Nwoke-Okoi, a registered nurse and midwife, while being led […]Continue Reading
A 74-year old man, Bassey Inyang, has been handed over to the police for alleged sexual abuse of a 12-year old girl in Calabar. The suspect, who resides at 14 Waddell Street, Mbukpa in Calabar, was whisked away by men of the Anti-Cult and Kidnapping Squad of the Cross River Police Command following an alarm […]Continue Reading
The Lagos State Government is to press charges against Nollywood actor, Olanrewaju James, popularly known as ”Baba Ijesa” for sexual assault. A statement by the Lagos State Commissioner for Justice, Mr, Moyosore Onigbanjo, on Tuesday says the Directorate of Public Prosecutions recommended five charges against the suspects. The sexual assault charge is punishable by life Continue Reading
Ogun State has had its fair share of incidences of rape in the recent times. From the case of a twenty-seven-year-old man raping an eighty-year-old woman, and that of the twenty-eight-year-old that attempted to kill the victim after rape to that of the secondary school teacher who defiled his fourteen-year-old student, the list goes on and […]Continue Reading
Ekiti State Government is to establish sexual assault referral centres to address incidences of rape in the society. Wife of the Governor, Erelu Bisi Fayemi stated this in Ado Ekiti during an interactive session on gender-based violence with heads of broadcast media stations in Ekiti state. Erelu Fayemi explained that the centres would be strategically […]Continue Reading