A senior Katsina Magistrate’s court has remanded one Yahaya Idris, 40, in prison for allegedly raping and impregnating his neighbour’s 15-year-old daughter. Police said the victim’s father, Lawal Abubakar from Gawa village of Bindawa Local Government Area, reported the matter to the police on September 23, leading to the arrest and subsequent …

A case against a 40-year-old man, who allegedly raped a three-year-old nursery school pupil in Onaosa, in the Ibeju-Lekki area in Nigeria, has been filed in a Lagos State Magistrate’s Court. The accused, Kehinde Gabriel, approached the girl when she was going to a mosque with her sisters on 16 August, as reported by local newspaper The Punch. Gabriel, …

Chidinma Okasu, a two-year-old girl, escaped death by a whisker after an injury to her head reportedly affected her brain. According to Punch Metro, the injury, it was gathered, was inflicted by her uncle, one Seyi Shodiya, who allegedly tortured her for excreting on a bed. Not done, he reportedly threw her off the bed and the survivor hit her head …