Category Archives: CHILD RIGHTS

Lagos State Government officials visit parents of student flogged to death by teacher

The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education in Lagos State Mr. Jamiu Tolani Alli-Balogun has led a team of Lagos State Government officials on a condolence visit to the parents of David Babadipo, an SS 1 student of Araromi Ilogbo Senior Secondary School, who died on Thursday 25th of January 2024. The Commissioner commiserated with the parents …

45-year old man remanded in prison for defiling 8-year old step Daughter in Lagos

A 45-year old man, Christopher Egwatu,  has been arrested and charged  in Lagos State for allegedly defiling his 8-year old step-daughter and she lost her virginity in the process.  The incident happened at Roseline Street, Ilogbo area of Ojo, Lagos, where the suspect, Egwatu, resides with the victim. The suspect started defiling the …

Married Church worker defiled and impregnated 14-year old girl inside church in Anambra state.

A 31-year-old father-of-two, James Rich, has been arrested by the Anambra State Police Command over allegations of defiling and impregnating a 14-year-old girl in Awka. The State Women and Social Welfare Commissioner, Hon. Ify Obinabo, who confirmed the incident in a statement on Thursday, November 16, 2023, said the suspect hails from Cross River …

Medical Doctor sentenced to LIFE IMPRISONMENT for defiling 15-year old girl

The Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja on Tuesday sentenced the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Doctor Olufemi Olaleye, to life imprisonment for defiling his wife’s niece. Olaleye was arraigned on two counts which bordered on defilement and sexual assault by penetration of his wife’s niece, …

DRIVER SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR RAPING EMPLOYER’S 5-YEAR OLD DAUGHTER

A 56-year-old driver, Folarin Raufu, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping his employer’s five-year-old granddaughter. The judge of the Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Abiola Soladoye, handed down the sentence on Monday after finding the convict guilty of defilement. Mr Raufu had been arraigned on 30 November 2021 on …

COURT REMANDS ANAMBRA BROTHEL OWNER FOR USING UNDER AGED GIRLS FOR PROSTITUTION

The Children, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Court, sitting at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Awka, has remanded a brothel owner, Mrs. Ekpereamaka Okonkwo, 39, alias Ukwu Venza, and her husband, Okechukwu Okonkwo, 36, for allegedly using und3rage girls for pr0stitution purposes in Oba, Idemili North Local Government Area of the state. The woman …

ASSEMBLIES OF GOD PASTOR ARRAIGNED IN COURT FOR RAPING 13-YEAR OLD CHILD

Rev. Chukwuwemeka Orji, a suspended Assemblies of God clergy who allegedly r@ped his 13-year-old domestic worker has been denied bail and remanded at the Aba Correctional Centre, pending further investigations. The suspect, who took the victim from her family members with a promise to sponsor her education, had allegedly been having carnal knowledge …