A 21-year old student, Ahmed Musa, on Thursday appeared before a Chief Magistrates’ Court in Katsina for alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl. Musa, according to Police First Information Report (FIR), committed the offence at about 2.30 p.m. on Feb. 5. The report stated that one Sakina Muhammad of Kofar-yamma Quarters in Zango reported the matter …

By Daji Sani in Yola. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) coordinator in North-East, Alhaji Sa’ad Bello, has refuted a media reports that some camps of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) are engaged in child abuse and trafficking, Bello told journalists in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, on Friday that there has not been any …

The police have arraigned a 27-year-old man, Tope Akintade, for impregnating a primary three pupil, Beatrice (pseudonym), after he allegedly raped her. Akintade and Beatrice, an orphan, are neighbours at a compound on Baale Street, Agboju, Kuje in the Amuwo area of Lagos State. It was learnt that the 13-year-old victim was outside washing plates in …

By Philip Obaji Jr.   More than five years of fighting in north eastern Nigeria has produced a replay of Africa’s catastrophic history. Nearly 10,000 have died and over one million people have been displaced. Many schools have been closed, abduction of girls is on the rise and another ghost of wars past is reappearing: the recruitment of child …

A fugitive task force in Oklahoma tracked down a pastor accused of having s*x with an underage girl. Damien Bonner, a senior pastor at Galilee Baptist Church, was arrested on six counts of lewd mοlestation. Owasso police said that the victim was a 15 year old who was friends with the pastor’s children. According to investigators, church members are …

By Gboyega Adeoye Moji, 15, is the eldest of the six children of Mr. and Mrs. Adeyanju who reside in Ipaja, a Lagos suburb. Both parents lost their jobs to the hurried liquidation of Nigeria’s flag carrier, Nigeria Airways, which finally kissed the dust at the twilight of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration. It was a fierce battle between …

50-year-old Isiaka Alade  was led by a teeming crowd, right from the uncompleted building which serves as home for him and his 14 year-old daughter , Sadia,   in Ayobo area of Lagos state, to the palace of the traditional ruler of the area, last Tuesday. From the palace, he was handed over to policemen from the State Criminal Investigation Department …

Soldiers from 144 Battalion, Asa, in Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State have rescued 14 pregnant teenagers and eight children from a motherless babies’ home at Umunkpeyi Nvosi in Isiala Ngwa South Local Government Area. Also arrested by the soldiers were six young men, who claimed to be staff of the home, and two girls, aged 16 and 25. …

A 60-year-old bricklayer, Segun Benson, has been accused of raping a primary six pupil on Mommoh Street in the Agege area of Lagos State. In the course of the rape, the victim’s private parts were said to have been damaged. Benson, who has an aged mother, was said to have never been married, while attempts by his mother to get him a wife had continually …