Tag Archives: rape

Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has berated the Nigeria Police Force for moving a rape case against Mr Abdulmumuni Danga, Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, to a court in Abuja. Danga, who raped a lady in Kogi State, is to be charged at the High Court of the Federal ...

The police have instituted a criminal case against the Kogi State Commissioner for Water Resources, Abdulmumuni Danga, after he allegedly assaulted a beauty queen named Elizabeth Oyeniyi earlier this year.   Danga is to appear before the Federal High Court in Abuja on a seven-count charge, including rape, brutality, coercion ...

Ifeyinwa Ezukamma, a 40-year-old mother of five, was chased out of her matrimonial home by her husband’s family for insisting on justice for her eight-year-old daughter, raped by her tenant. Ezukamma told newsmen that the incident took place in their country home, Ogidi, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra ...

Rape, Rapists and False Rape Peddlers (III). The reverse side of the coin is that, I detest false rape peddlers. Introduction We have so far x-rayed this vexed topic, doing a thematic and comparative analysis of same. We shall encore it today. My humble stand: Rape is reprehensible. It suffers ...

A 15-year-old boy was, on Monday, charged for alleged rape before an Abuja Upper Area Court at Karu. The Police prosecutor, Mohammed Garuba, told the court that one Eni Ola of Durumi 2, Garki, Abuja, reported the matter to the police on July 11. Mr. Garuba said the suspect took advantage of ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — In May, hundreds of thousands of people around the world became familiar with the slight smile of a young student named Uwa Omozuwa. She was studying in a church, working toward a degree in microbiology, when she was violently raped. Within days, she had died from the brutal ...

A non-profit organisation, IPAS, says that Nigeria is witnessing a rise in sexual violence, including rape and incest. This is contained in a communique issued at the end of a three-day media training for journalists on Women’s Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights/Global Gag Rule (GGR). The News Agency of Nigeria ...

An Islamic teacher, Ismaila Saheed, 38, and one Toliha Sabith, 20, have been arrested by men of the Ogun state police for allegedly defiling a girl   A statement released by the spokesperson of the state police command, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the duo were arrested over the weekend by detectives ...

A woman named Lereko Melissa has accused Hillsong Church in Oxford of enabling the son of two pastors who sexually harassed her while she was a member of the church.   Lereko claims she was a chorister, together with Joshua Barwell, and during that period, he made sexually suggestive comments towards her. ...

Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has released a video which backed his denial of the rape allegation made against him by two women.   This came after the Police confirmed they are investigating the multi-millionaire leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering church for the alleged rape of two women.   One of the women who spoke to eTV ...