sexual assault
28 Mar
Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Adegoke Fayoade, yesterday paraded 63 suspects arrested for sundry crimes, including armed robbery, cultism, sexual assault and drug trafficking.
22 Mar
Said Chabane, owner of French football club Angers, on Friday received a two-year jail term, with one year suspended, for sexually assaulting six female employees.
5 Mar
The police in Osun State have arrested a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Soji Ezekiel, over alleged sexual assault on a student of the state’s university in Osogbo.
4 Mar
Ogun State Police Command has arrested 188 suspects for various offences within seven months.
The arrests were made in 48 murder cases, 75 robbery cases, 12 kidnap and 53 sexual assault incidents.
23 Feb
Two women who filed lawsuits against singer Trey Songz alleging sexual assault in 2015 have voluntarily dismissed their cases, according to court documents obtained by TMZ. The lawsuits, filed in October 2023, accused Songz of non-consensual sexual acts at a party at his home. Neither party has provided a reason for dropping the lawsuits. Songz…
23 Jan
A Lagos High Court has sentenced Samuel Ademola Oladimeji to life imprisonment for the sexual assault by penetration on his three children. The ruling was delivered by Justice Abiola Sholadoye of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja. Justice Sholadoye, while delivering the verdict, stated that the testimonies of the prosecution witnesses were unshaken and…
22 Jan
A Lagos High Court has sentenced a man identified as Samuel Ademola Oladimeji to three concurrent life imprisonment sentences for the offense of sexual assault by penetration of his three children.
19 Jan
A man, Yusuf Samaila, is currently being held after spending days in police custody for reporting a Deputy Superintendent of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Sani Muazu, to the authorities over alleged sexual assault on his wife.
16 Jan
Justice Rahman Oshodi of the Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a 50-year-old trader, Chukuwemeka Ejike, to 14 years imprisonment for attempted sexual assault of a nine-year-old girl.
9 Jan
Justice Rahman Oshodi of a Lagos Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, Ikeja, yesterday, sentenced a security guard, Olawale Olanrewaju, to life imprisonment for having sexual intercourse with a 12-year-old girl.
9 Jan
For allegedly fingering his neighbour’s eight-year-old girl, Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, yesterday, remanded a 27-year-old man, Owolabi Olabisi in a correctional facility.
8 Jan
Operatives of the Borno State Police Command have arrested 85 suspects for sexual assault and other criminal activities in Maiduguri Metropolitan Council (MMC), Jere, and Biu Local Councils of the state.
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