rape

The General Overseer of a church (name withheld) has been arrested by detectives attached to the Delta State Police Command, Asaba for allegedly raping a seven-year-old daughter of his member. The police spokesperson in the state, Mrs. Celestina Kalu, said the suspect’s church was along Ibusa...

A Redeemed Christian Church of God members, simply identified only as Damilola, has been arrested by Lagos State Police Command for allegedly raping a 25-year-old church lady on Omole Estate, in the Ojodu area of the state. It was gathered that the victim and Damilola are members of a parish of...

A 48-year-old man, Micheal Ogbar, on Tuesday appeared before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly raping his three daughters. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, refused to hear his plea and remanded him in Kirikiri prisons. Elias said the court had no jurisdiction over the...

A computer teacher, on contractual agreement, Cosmos Ubaja has been arrested by the Lagos State policemen for allegedly raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl in the Owutu area of Ikorodu. The victim, Victoria , was lured by the suspect when she went to his shop to make photocopies after school hours...

Justice Kudirat Jose of Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja was, yesterday, told how a commercial driver, Ajayi Gbadegesin, 40, had sexual intercourse with his daughter for 18 months. Led in evidence by the state prosecutor, Mr. Babatunde Oguntemowo, an importer of laboratory and scientific...

Confusion broke out in Nongvan village, Timdore District in Ganye Local Government Area of Adamawa as a 25-year-old man allegedly raped a four- year-old toddler to death. The accused, who is a nephew to the father of the girl, is said to be fond of the little girl, Aisha Ali, and always played...

A commercial driver, Fatai Ogundele, has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping his 14-year-old daughter, Titi (not real name). It was learnt that Ogundele and Titi’s mother divorced in 2006. According to PUNCH, Ogundele allegedly started engaging in the incestuous...

THE Federal Polytechnic, Bida, has suspended a lecturer in the Department of Public Administration for allegedly raping an ND1 student in the department. The lecturer PUNCH gathered was caught in the act. The Police Public Relations Officer, Niger State Police Command, Bala Elkana...

A 40-year-old man, Kamoru Shittu, was on Thursday arraigned in an Osogbo Magistrates’ Court for allegedly raping a 21-year-old deaf and dumb girl in her school, PM Newspaper reports. The prosecutor, SP Mereti Wilson, told the court that the offence was contrary to Section 357 and punishable...

A motorcyclist, Uche Imo, has been arrested by the Nigerian Police from Isokoko division Lagos State for allegedly raping a primary six pupil named Princess. It was gathered that Imo and the pupil were neighbours on Tijani Street, Ajangbadi, and he was employed by Princess’ mother to take her...

A former elementary school principal awaiting trial on charges of raping possibly dozens of pupils has hanged himself in a prison in central France, sources close to the case said Tuesday. Romain Farina, the 46-year-old former head of a school in Villefontaine near Lyon, was charged about a...

A teenager has been arrested following reports a man was allegedly raped in a Manchester shopping centre. According to Independent, security staff detained the 19-year-old on Friday over the apparent attack in the Arndale centre’s branch of Next. Police were called to the scene shortly after...

A South African court Wednesday temporarily abandoned a rape case against the grandson of anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela after the prosecution brought an application to “provisionally withdraw prosecution.” Mbuso Mandela, 25-year-old was accused of raping an underage girl at a pub in...

An Ikeja chief magistrates’ court has granted a N1 million bail to Obinna Obaji, a trader who allegedly defiled a three-year-old girl. In his ruling, Taujudeen Elias, the chief magistrate, ordered the defendant to produce two sureties in like sum as part of the bail conditions. Elias said...

A 35-year-old man, Oladele Oladunmoni, who allegedly poked his finger into the private part of a 3-month-old baby, was on Monday arraigned in a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos. Oladunmoni who resides at No. 25, Dagbolu St., Idi-Iroko, Ikorodu, Lagos, is facing a charge of child abuse. The...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a diploma holder, Samuel Onochie, for allegedly sexually assaulting a pregnant woman, (name withheld), in Jakande, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of the state. It was learnt that the woman, said to be eight-month-old pregnant, was passing...

A pastor, who is the General Overseer of a church (name withheld) located at Oworonshoki area of Lagos State has been accused of raping an 11-year-old girl. A witness told New Telegraph that the incident occurred January 23 at a brothel in the area. The witness said the GO lured the girl to the...

A 42-year-old cleric, Pastor Chidiebere Ikpa, has been arrested for allegedly raping his stepdaughter, Ngozi (pseudonym), in the Surulere area of the state by the Lagos State Police Command. Ikpa, who denied the allegation, told PUNCH that it was a neighbour, whom he identified only as Richard...

An aide to the Commissioner of Police, Railway Command, Lagos State, identified as Agu, has been arrested for allegedly raping and beating a lady until she fell into a coma, last Sunday. PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened inside the policeman’s apartment in the Railway Police...

It was a sad end for a 22-year-old housewife, Aisha Abdullahi, who was raped to death by unknown person(s) at her matrimonial home at Ungogo quarters, on the outskirts of Kano metropolis. Police said Abdullahi Muhammad, husband of late Aisha, reported that he met the deceased in a pool of her...