by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 23, 2023 | Violence Against Women
<span;>This week, a Nigerian guy and his accomplice took an Indian woman named Barnali Baruah Saikia hostage in Lagos. She was freed and returned to her homeland. <span;>On October 28, 2023, Barnali, a boxer and fitness coach from Guwahati, Assam, went to...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 23, 2023 | Rape
The 29-year-old Chikodili Igboji, who is charged with raping the 50-year-old widow Mrs. Chinyere Igwe, has been placed under detention at a correctional facility by an Abakaliki Chief Magistrate Court. On Wednesday, November 22, 2023, the Magistrate, Chinedu...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 22, 2023 | Murder
A mother is charged with murdering her baby boy by cutting his throat in order for him to “be with God and Jesus.” The 30-year-old mother of three and wife of a US Army staff sergeant, April Evalyn Short, was taken into custody on Wednesday, Nov. 15, and...
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 22, 2023 | Child Abuse
Jegede Folorunsho, 54, has been sent under remand to the Ikoyi Correctional Centre after it was alleged that he defiled an eight-year-old girl in the Lagos State neighbourhood of Mushin. On Monday, November 20, 2023, the defendant appeared in Magistrate O.M....
by Angela Onyebuchi | Nov 22, 2023 | Violence Against Women
Thembinkosi Lorch, a football player from South Africa, was sentenced to a suspended term in jail for hitting his ex-girlfriend Fundiswa Nokuphiwa Mathithibala. The Orlando Pirates player was sentenced to three years in prison by the Randburg Magistrates’ Court...
