An Arabic school teacher, Oladosu Sakiru, was sentenced to 21 years in prison yesterday for attempting to sexually assault a 13-year-old pupil.

  Between May 2023 and April 2024, an estimated 1.4 million people were victims of sexual offences, including rape, in Nigeria. Seventy-three per cent of these crimes were perpetrated with the use of knives. The National Bureau of Statistics revealed these figures in its Crime Experience and Security Perception Survey 2024, a report that details…

A Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced one Bamidele Folorunsho to 10 years in prison for indecent treatment and sexual assault on a minor.

A labourer has been remanded in Correctional Centre by an Ondo State Magistrate Court sitting in Akure for allegedly assaulting his 11-year-old daughter sexually. The 38-year-old father, Moses Udoh, who allegedly committed the crime on November 26, at 10:20 p.m., at his residence located at No. 20 Igboniki Street, along LAO, Akure, the state capital,…

The Lagos division Court of Appeal, on Friday, discharged and acquitted a Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Olufemi Olaleye who was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for defilement and sexual assault by penetration of a minor, his wife's niece. The appellate court held that the trial court erred in convicting Dr…

A Lagos court has sentenced a man to four years in prison for indecent treatment and sexual assault of a minor. Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court in Ikeja found Onyeka Ubaka guilty of the two-count charge brought against him by the state government. Ubaka was accused of sexually assaulting…

A middle-aged man, Godwin Uzodinma, was yesterday brought before the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court to face charges of sexual assault by penetration and defilement of an 11-year-old girl.

An Ikeja Magistrates Court in Ogba, Lagos, has dismissed a sexual assault charge against a 42-year-old man, Mr Emmanuel Emeruwa, following a lack of prosecutable evidence.

Two men have been remanded in custody by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates' Court in connection with separate child defilement cases. Waheed Ibrahim, 32, from Ibeju-Lekki, is accused of defiling a four-year-old girl on September 3, 2024.

A Lagos State Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court has sentenced a teenager, Damilare Olanrewaju, to five years in prison for indecently assaulting a minor.

More than 79 million women and girls across sub-Saharan Africa have endured rape and sexual assault as children, according to data presented by UNICEF on Thursday. The UN children's agency said newly collated data showed the region was among the worst places in the world to be a girl. Globally, UNICEF estimates that sexual violence…

Police in Ogun State have arrested Olayemi Olawale Shedrack, 33, who was wanted in connection with an armed robbery and sexual assault at Tai Solarin University of Education in Ijagun.