The International Federation of Women Lawyers has raised the alarm over the rise in cases of teachers sexually abusing their students in Rivers State. The Chairperson of FIDA in Rivers State, Adata Bio-Briggs, while speaking to journalists in Port Harcourt, the state capital, said between January and April 2022, over 50 cases of teachers defiling ...

The Niger State Government says over100 rape cases were recorded in the state in 2021. Mrs Mary Yisa, Director, Planning, Research and Statistic, Ministry of Women Affair and Social Development, Niger, made the disclosure to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday. She spoke on the sideline of a road show organised by the ...

SINGAPORE: A 19-year-old teenager was on Wednesday (Mar 2) charged with the rape of his younger sister. He was charged with two counts of rape, two counts of sexual assault, one count of attempted rape and two counts of voluntarily causing hurt to the victim. The accused is a student at the Institute of Technical ...

American R&B artist, Tremaine Aldon Neverson popularly known as Trey Songz has been accused of sexual assault in connection with a 2016 incident at a party in Los Angeles in a €17.74 million lawsuit. The woman, who is identified as Jane Doe in the suit, said Trey Songz forced her to have an*l sex against ...

An Islamic boarding school teacher has bagged life sentence for raping thirteen pupils and impregnating nine of them in Indonesia. The judge said that teacher Herry Wirawan had sexually groomed the 13 girls, who were between 12 and 16 years old, and impregnated at least nine of his victims, some of whom suffered injuries from ...

A Nigerian prisons official has confessed to raping a 13-year-old mentally challenged girl in Adamawa State. The official, identified simply as MC Bello, said he lured the minor with N50 and took her into his apartment near his place of work, the Yolde-Pate Correctional Centre, Yola South Local Government Area of the state, where he ...

An Ebute Meta Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, on Tuesday, remanded a pastor with the Royal World Embassy Church, Rufus Olatunji, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 14-year-old member. The Chief Magistrate, F.M. Kayode, who did not take Mr Olatunji’s plea, ordered that the pastor be remanded at Ikoyi Correctional Centre. Mr Kayode then adjourned the case ...

More than 200,000 people have signed a petition to demand that two brothers are freed after they were charged with murder and had their bond set at $1million for reportedly killing their stepfather when they found out he was raping their nine-year-old half-sister. In just two days, 204,000 signatures were collected to call for the ...

The Jigawa State Attorney General and Commissioner of Justice, Dr Musa Aliyu, has said the ministry received a total of 196 cases from the police, judiciary and other security agencies in 2021. The commissioner made the disclosure while presenting the review of the activities conducted by the ministry in the outgoing year. He said during ...

A former Publicity Secretary of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Benin Branch, Mr Douglas Ogbankwa, on Wednesday said that a husband can be held liable for rape of his wife if he touches her inappropriately. Ogbankwa stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), following arguments as to whether it is ...

Bauchi State Government in its law on Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) under amendment process will punish the families and relatives of victims of rape who failed to report to the authorities, the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has said. FIDA Chairperson in Bauchi on Friday said this during the 16-day activism against gender-based ...

Wife of the president, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, has advocated for the setting up of special courts to handle cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) in the country. The first lady made the appeal during the second Annual Conference of Nigerian Governors Wives Forum (NGWF), yesterday in Abuja. The conference has as its theme, ...

The rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl in Spokane, Washington, in 1959 has been solved thanks to advanced DNA technology. Authorities said last week that Candy Rogers was raped and murdered by a man 11 years her senior in March 1959 after disappearing from her home. She was selling campfire mints in her Spokane’s ...

The Jigawa High Court sitting in Birnin Kudu Local Government Area on Monday, November 22, 2021, sentenced Idris Munkaila to life imprisonment for defiling his sister-in-law and infecting her with HIV/AIDs in Gwaram local government area. The defendant was arraigned before the court on the 26th of June 2017 for allegedly luring a six-year-old girl ...

The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has relieved a woman judge of court duties after she made a controversial observation in her judgement that the police should not register a rape case 72 hours after the offence was committed. The Supreme Court of Bangladesh has relieved a woman judge of court duties after she made a ...

A 16-year-old girl has alleged she was raped by at least 400 men. Seven men have been arrested in India in what is the latest shocking case of sexual violence in the country. The girl, who was homeless, said she was raped by 400 men in Beed district of Maharashtra state, India’s Child Welfare Committee’s ...