sexual assault
9 Nov
The police in Ogun State have arrested a secondary school teacher, identified as Olaniran Lateef Adewale, over alleged sexual assaults and kidnapping of two young ladies in their 20s.
18 Oct 2023
A Niger Senior Magistrate's court sitting in Minna has remanded a hotelier, Friday Okechukwu in correctional custody for allegedly assaulting a married woman sexually. Okechukwu was arraigned before Magistrate Christy Barau on a six-count charge bordering on enticement of a married woman, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement, assault or criminal force to a woman, with intent…
17 Oct 2023
Justice Abiola Soladoye of Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced an apprentice, Godwin Ogboniya, to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting his employer’s nine-year-old daughter.
10 Oct 2023
The police in Borno State have secured 250 convictions from 537 suspects arrested for sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary and other criminal activities in the state. The arrests were made in the last three months in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC), Jere, Monguno and Shani local councils of the state. The state Commissioner of Police (CP), Mohammed…
27 Sep 2023
Chief Magistrate Poromon Menenen has acquitted and discharged Professor David Ogbonna of Rivers State University, of sexual assault charges.
21 Sep 2023
Operatives of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a 28-year-old truck conductor, Abdurazak Ibrahim, for alleged sexual assault on a 15-year- old girl in Edo State.
7 Sep 2023
The management of Greater Scholars Group of schools, Lagos, has dismissed claims that a staff of the school sexually assaulted a four-year-old female pupil.
29 Aug 2023
Berlin prosecutors said Tuesday that they had closed an investigation against Till Lindemann, the frontman of German metal band Rammstein, following claims of women being drugged and sexually assaulted at concerts.
22 Aug 2023
A 17-year-old medical student of a yet to be ascertained university in Lagos, one Great Orogun, has reportedly sexually assaulted a three-year-old baby in Ibafo, Obafemi-Owode Local Council of Ogun State. The Guardian gathered that the baby was assaulted on August 18at a birthday party inthe suspect’s family house, where the organisers of the party…
21 Jul 2023
Indian police have arrested four men accused of parading two women naked in front of a mob in a northeastern state where months of ethnic violence have left at least 120 dead.
19 Jul 2023
The police in Anambra State have arrested 11 suspects involved in various crimes, including sexual assault and defilement in the last one week.
7 Jul 2023
Justice Abiola Soladoye of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a teacher, Bright Emenugo, to life imprisonment for sexual assault on a 15-year-old male student
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