The Police Command in Kano State on Thursday said the state recorded 42 r*pe cases between January and May, 2020. This was disclosed by the Command’s...
An 80-year-old man, Mohammed Bara’u of Lawan Fannami Ward in Gashu’a, Yobe State has been arrested by the police in the state, for allegedly raping a...
Lawan’s rigmarole It was a classic Ahmed Lawan beating about the bush last week. While making a remark on the incessant Boko Haram killings in Borno...
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said on Tuesday a community leader, a pastor and three others had been arrested for alleged defilement and rape in...
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Pauline Tallen, on Tuesday assured Nigerians that the Federal Government would do everything possible to address the problem...
The Zamfara State Police Command on Monday confirmed the arrest of a 25-year-old man, Aminu Bala for allegedly raping and killing his elder brother’s wife in...
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), said on Thursday he would soon inaugurate the Inter-Ministerial Gender-Based Violence Management Committee to...
Following the increase in rape and gruesome murder of some victims, the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) has declared a state of emergency on the sexual and...
A bill that seeks to protect rape victims in the country from stigmatization, on Wednesday passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate. The bill entitled ‘Rape...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved stiffer penalties for rape and child defilement in the country. The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen,...
The Yaba Magistrate Court, Lagos, Wednesday discharged and acquitted a 15-year-old girl accused of killing her father`s friend, Babatunde Ishola. The teenager stabbed Ishola to death...
The Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), led by Emeka Rollas, has made good its vow to deal with and eradicate all forms of abuses against actors...
Blowing hot air The seeming free reign of bandits in the north of Nigeria got President Muhammadu Buhari blowing hot air last week. The most recent...
The federal government of Nigeria has commenced the naming and shaming of offenders who have been convicted of rape. This came to light after Julie Okah-Donli,...
Police operatives in Benue State have apprehended one Mr Patrick Onoja Igah, 26, for allegedly luring and raping a seven-year-old girl inside a 7th Wonder Church...
If the news of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila, on Wednesday 3rd June 2020, denying ever writing any letter for...
Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Adewale Akanbi, on Saturday urged the Federal Government to legalise the use of stun gun and pepper spray for females as...
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said on Friday he would engage Speakers of State Houses of Assembly on domestication of laws against...
Former Big Brother Africa (BBA) reality show, Season Five winner, Uti Nwachukwu has threatened to drag a Twitter user who accused him of raping her sometime...
Members of the House of Representatives on Thursday voted against a recommendation that those convicted for rape in the country should be castrated. This was as...
Citizens have been reminded that they risk spending the rest of their lives in prison if they are found guilty of rape in Osun State. The...
A 22 year-old female undergraduate, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, from the University of Benin has been brutally murdered by unknown attackers in her church around the Ikopba...
The long arm of the law has caught up with one 62-year-old man based in Osun State identified as David Ogungbemi, and his son, Idowu, 20,...
The Anambra State Police Command has arrested an ex-convict, Emeka Okeke for allegedly threatening a 36-year-old woman with a toy gun and thereafter raping her. The...
A 15-year old girl, name withheld, has narrated how her father, Chinonso Okonkwo, 44, had been defiling her since she was 13. She also said that...
The Nigerian Army said it had arrested two soldiers who vowed to rape, and infect Warri women with HIV. The Army said the soldiers were arrested...
The Lagos State Police Command said on Sunday a 16-year-old girl has been arrested for allegedly stabbing a 49-year-old security guard, Babatunde Ishola, to death while...
The Osun State Police Command on Monday said it is investigating a case of alleged rape against one Sesan for having carnal knowledge of a three-year-old...
The Nigerian Navy School of Armament Technology, says its operatives arrested no fewer than nine suspects involved in kidnapping, cattle rustling and banditry in Kaduna State....
A 37-year-old man, simply identifies as Stephen, has been remanded in Kirikiri Correctional Service by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, for allegedly raping his 16-year-old daughter...
A bill to review provisions of the Criminal Code Act on rape and kidnapping passed second reading at the Nigerian Senate on Tuesday. The bill sponsored...
Nollywood thespian, Elvina Ibru has expressed her desire to meet with the robber who raped her in the year 2004 in an incident she says was...
One Pastor Sunday Egbo, founder of Christ Mercy Ministry, Ajuona Obukpa, in Nsukka Local government Area of the Enugu State has been paraded by the police...
An upsurge of rape cases in Nigeria has inevitably forced various non-governmental organizations, professional bodies, and parents alike to seek ways out of the ugly trend....
Celebrity photographer, Busola Dakola, has been fined N1 million by a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Bwari, for wasting the time of the court....
No less than 108 persons were on Thursday rescued from an illegal rehabilitation center in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital. One of the victims, a female,...
A human rights group in Malawi has accused local police of rape and torture against women committed in the capital of Lilongwe. The rights group says...
A non-governmental organization, Save the Children, has revealed that children were the most affected, following a compilation of records kept by sexual assault referral centers in...
A 17-year-old salesgirl, Peace Onaiwu, was on Monday discovered dead inside her shop located at Uwasota Junction, Ugbowo, Benin City after she was allegedly raped to...
Thousands of anti-rape protesters thronged the streets of South Africa on Friday in demonstrations over the rape and murder of a 19-year old girl in August...
A neighbour, said to be on the run, has allegedly raped and strangled a middle-aged woman, Bukola Olanrenwaju to death in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State...
Sultry Ghanaian nay Nollywood actress Juliet Ibrahim has joined the growing list of women who have taken the courage to come out of their closets to...
A Chief Magistrates’ Court at Iyaganku, Ibadan, on Monday, remanded a 42-year-old man, Sulaimon Ajigbot Allah, in prison for defiling his 9 year old daughter. Chief...
The Ondo State Police Command has said it would on Wednesday arraign the soldier who allegedly raped a student of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko...
A Brooklyn Federal Court on Friday morning denied troubled R&B singer R Kelly bail, after he was arraigned on charges of sexual abuse and racketeering. The...
It is sad to see the media replete with stories of violent crimes and the seeming helplessness of the people in tackling this malaise. Armed robbery,...
United States Prosecutors have said, Juventus forward, Cristiano Ronaldo will not face charges after being accused of rape. The Prosecutors revealed this in a statement on...
A 28-year-old teacher, Idowu Daniel, and a 49-year-old stepfather, Michael Akintayo were on Monday remanded at Kirikiri by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates Court for defiling some...
A 26-year-old man, Abibu Babatunde, on Monday was remanded in prison by an Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court in Osun after allegedly raping his 14-year-old niece. The Prosecution...
One Chukuemaka Eze has been arrested by the Imo State Police Command for allegedly killing an ex-corps member, Lilian Mgbanwu, after raping her. The Force Public...
