Rape

The Police Command in Gombe State, says it has arrested a 47-year-old father for allegedly raping his two- year-old step-daughter. The Command’s spokesperson in the state, DSP Buhari Abdullahi, disclosed this in a press statement issued…
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Namibia’s president, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, has dismissed the southern African country’s agriculture minister, who Namibian media have reported is under investigation for alleged rape, her office said on Sunday. A police spokesperson…
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Three persons, identified as John Moses, Yakubu Mohammed and Mustapha Musa, have been sentenced to death by hanging and surgical Castration following two count charges of rape in Kaduna. The Ministry of Human Services and Social…
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An Ado-Ekiti Magistrate’s Court, on Wednesday, ordered that a 42-year-old man, Christopher Israel, should be remanded in the correctional centre for allegedly raping his 22-year-old daughter. The police charged Israel with rape and…
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A Kebbi High Court 7, sitting in Birnin Kebbi, presided by Justice Shamsudeen Jafar, has sentenced three people to life imprisonment for raping an 18-year-old married woman (deaf). The convicts are; Amiru Sani, Aliyu Umar and Bashar…
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In a landmark ruling, a court in Pakistan's conservative Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has sentenced a man to life imprisonment for raping and kidnapping his underage wife. The victim’s lawyer, Mian Safeer, announced the verdict on…
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The management of Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo, has launched an investigation into the alleged rape of a female student of the institution by two security officers. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident was…
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When Memunat Hawwal realised that her 17-year-old daughter was raped by 25-year-old man in the Nassarawa Local Government Area of Kano State, she informed her husband. By the eve of the day of their discovery, they reported the…
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Kenneth Mba, 53-year-old rubber trader, has been sentenced to life imprisonment by an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for defiling his friend’s 12-year-old daughter. According to Justice Rahman Oshodi, the prosecution…
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An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a Lagos bishop, Oluwafeyiropo Daniels, to life imprisonment for raping his 23-year-old assistant (name withheld). Justice Rahman Oshodi also sentenced Daniels, the…
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