Category Archives: VIOLENCE AGAINST CHILDREN/CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

11
Jun

I SOLD MY BABY TO RAISE MONEY TO TRAIN HER SIBLINGS – WOMAN SAYS

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A 22-year-old woman, Blessing Chukwu, who was arrested by the operatives of the Abia State Police Command in Umuahia for allegedly selling her child, has confessed that she sold her daughter to raise money to train her siblings. Chukwu, who said she already had four children, added that she had no husband to cater for them. She said she was given N190,000, …
11
Jun

MAN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN IMPRISON FOR DEFILING 12-YEAR OLD GIRL

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A Lagos state High Court sitting at Igbosere, Lagos state, on Monday convicted and sentenced a 28-year-old man, Kingsley Inyang, to life imprisonment for defiling a 12-year-old girl. In his ruling, the presiding judge, Justice Sedoten Ogunsanya convicted and found the accused guilty of defiling the girl, a junior secondary school (JSS) two pupil, contrary …
06
Jun

COLLEGE STUDENT RAPED TO DEATH IN TARABA

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A 300-level final year student of College of Nursing and Midwifery, Jalingo, Miss. Mercy Victor, on Tuesday, died of injuries she sustained following a gang-rape on her by suspected hoodlums on Sunday night. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP. David Missal who confirmed the development on Tuesday said the matter was reported to the headquarters …
06
Jun

57-YEAR OLD MAN REMANDED IN IKOYI PRISON FOR DEFILING 13-YEAR OLD GIRL

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A 57-year old man, Idowu Fashola has been remanded at the Ikoyi Prison, Lagos for allegedly defiling his wife’s sister’s 13-year old daughter. He was ordered to be remanded pending when he would perfect the bail conditions granted him by an Igbosere Magistrate Court for allegedly having unlawful canal knowledge of the girl on several occasions after …
02
Jun

MAN WHO DEFILED HIS 4 DAUGHTERS PLEADS GUILTY IN COURT AND REMANDED IN PRISON

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A 41-year-old man, Michael Akpan-Isaiah, has been remanded in prison custody for allegedly defiling his four daughters. The minors are aged between two and 17 years. Isaiah, from Akwa Ibom State, allegedly committed the offence between April and May at Borokiri Sand Field, Port Harcourt. The charge reads: “That you, Michael Akpan Isaiah, sometime …
21
May

THE PLIGHT OF THE GIRL CHILD

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THE utmost responsibility of every nation is to provide security for its citizens. Security means that everything is settled. Lives and properties are protected. The citizens do not live in fear. One of the problems bedeviling Nigeria today is the issue of insecurity. It is no longer news that nobody is safe in Nigeria today. Everybody lives in fear …
21
May

Tragic Tales Of Innocent Children Brutally Molested And Murdered By Their Own Guardians

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After the death of his parents, eight-year-old Friday Paul got temporary accommodation in his uncle’s home, pending when a permanent home would be found for him. But from the moment the orphan stepped into that apartment at 6, Anjolarin Street, Odogunyan, a community in Ikorodu, Lagos, life took a pathetic twist, as the boy daily suffered unimaginable …
19
May

Cele ‘prophet’ lands in big trouble for allegedly abducting, impregnating 10-yr-old

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A man described as a prophet of a Celestial Church of Christ parish in the Ilashe area of Ipokia Local Government Area of Ogun State, identified simply as Woli Michael was penultimate week flogged for allegedly abducting and impregnating a 10-year-old girl in the community. It was learnt that Michael, a native of Ondo State, abducted the minor in February …
13
May

I killed my step-daughter because she irritates me, says 15-year-old housewife

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The police in Niger State have apprehended a 15-year-old housewife, Fatima Adamu, and her ex-lover, Usman Mohammed, of Egbati village in the Agaie Local Government Area of the state for the murder of her daughter identified as Hauwa. Northern City News gathered that Mohammed assisted Adamu to prepare a concoction which was administered on the five-year-old …
12
May

Gombe Teacher Sentenced To 25 Years Imprisonment For causing the Amputation of 12-Yr-Old Boy’s Hands.

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The teacher who caused the amputation of a boy’s hands in Gombe State has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Recall that 12- year -old boy named Zubair Abubakar had his hands amputated after the punishment meted on him by his teacher for allegedly stealing a phone led to the cessation of blood flow to his hands.