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An ikeja magistrate court has remanded a 24-year-old man, Savior Edith to Kirikiri Prison for allegedly defiling his neighbour’s three-year-old daughter. The prosecutor, Insp. Benedict Aigbokhan told the court that the accused, who lives at 19, Ishajimi St., Agege, a suburb of Lagos, defiled the girl on March 23. “The accused called the girl inside his room and defiled her, it was her cry that alerted her mother and the accused was apprehended,” the prosecutor said. He said that the offence contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011. The accused, however, pleaded not guilty. The Chief Magistrate, Mr Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the accused be remanded till April 20 pending determination of his bail application. 

  A retired soldier has told an Igando Customary court in Lagos that his wife violently rapes him in the middle of the night. According to the man identified as Gafaru Rodoye, his wife "has turned my boxers to rags as she always tears them to rape me." Speaking in court on Tuesday, Rodoye revealed that his wife, Idiat, with whom he had five children in their 20-year old marriage, always raped him to satisfy her urges. He said: “My wife always rape me; she had turned all my boxers to rags to achieve her selfish aim. I had to run away from my 16-flat building to rent an apartment elsewhere just to avoid her frequent beatings, but she trailed me to my new apartment to fight me. I have reported her severally to different police stations, but it did not yield any positive result. Please, separate us before my wife kills me, my life is not safe with her, I am a pensioner, I need to enjoy the fruit of my labour." Gafaru also revealed that his wife poured hot water on the new wi...

The detained  leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu, has urged the British Government  to intervene in his case by asking President Muhammadu Buhari to release him from prison. Kanu who is facing treason charge alongside  two other pro-Biafra agitators, Benjamin Madubugwu and David Nwawuisi, approached the British government through his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor. Kanu, in a letter dated March 24 and addressed to the British High Commissioner in Abuja, described himself as a victim of travesty of justice and gross human rights violation. He insisted that the President Buhari-led administration  has violently abused his fundamental human rights through his prolonged detention in prison custody. Even though Kanu said he was ready to answer to the charge  against him, he however expressed doubt  in the ability of the Nigerian government to accord him fair trial, saying he has so far been subjected to immense persecution. Stressing t...

President Muhammadu Buhari will leave for Washington DC, USA today to join about 60 other world leaders and heads of international organisations at the 4th Nuclear Security Summit which opens there tomorrow. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, made this known in a statement yesterday. He said Buhari would, at plenary sessions of the summit dedicated to reinforcing international commitment to the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, insist that while Nigeria would continue to sustain that commitment, world powers must respect the right of other countries to the peaceful use of nuclear energy for development purposes. He said the president would reaffirm Nigeria’s stance that international efforts to ensure greater security of nuclear materials should maintain a balance between nuclear non-proliferation obligations and the indisputable right of Nigeria and other countries to harness nuclear energy and technology for socio-economic development. H...

MILITARY commanders have claimed a major victory in the war against Boko Haram declaring that Nigerian Army troops have captured the terrorists' spiritual headquarters in Alargano Forest after a fierce 10-day battle.   Over the last week, government forces and Boko Haram fighters have been engaged in pitch battles in Borno State and military authorities say the fighting has now ended with their troops coming out on top. Major General Lucky Irabor, the general officer commanding the Seventh Mechanised Division of the Nigerian Army, said the troops offensive to capture Alargano Forest since March 18 was successfully concluded on Monday.   He said the offensive commenced on March 18 at about 0900 hours with troops of the Third and Seventh Mechanised Divisions, assisted by the Nigerian Air Force (Naf). Major General Irabor, however, revealed that the advance was halted several times due to planted improvised explosive devices along the way.   Major General Irabor said: “Our g...

The Nigerian Army wishes to regrettably inform the public that Colonel Samaila Inusa who was kidnapped on Sunday 27th March 2016, was found dead today at about 6.00pm. Preliminary investigation revealed that most likely the late senior officer was killed same day he was kidnapped by his abductors. This is because the body was found already decomposing around Ajyaita village off Eastern Bypass Kaduna, Kaduna State. Arrangements are in progress to move the body to 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital, Kaduna. May His soul rest in peace, Amen. We wish to state in unmistakeable terms that whoever is behind his abduction and murder would be fished out to face the full wrath of the law. You are kindly requested to disseminate this information to the public through your medium. Thank you for your kind cooperation. Colonel Sani Kukasheka Usman Acting Director, Army Public Relations Acting Director, Army Public Relations

The hostage situation at Cyprus' Larnaca airport  has finally ended in arrest of the hijacker, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The foreign ministry identified the hijacker as Seif Eldin Mustafa in a tweet. It did not provide further details. The foreign ministry reportedly said the hijacker "is not a terrorist, but an idiot". A man who claimed to have an explosive vest had been holding seven people hostage aboard an EgyptAir plane after forcing it to divert to the Mediterranean island during a domestic flight from Alexandria to Cairo. The airline said the plane, flight number MS181, was carrying 56 passengers, including 26 foreigners, and seven crew, as well as a security officer. Minutes before the alleged hijacker was arrested a number of people were seen leaving the plane, walking down the stairs, with one climbing out of a cockpit window, before being led away by security officers. Announcing the end of the hostage situation, the Cyprus Ministry of Fore...