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Omotayo Adanlawo, a primary school teacher in Ondo State, was on Thursday sentenced to life imprisonment for raping a 10-year-old girl. He was jailed by the state’s High Court in Akure, the capital, after he used N50 to lure the little girl before defiling her. The teacher had on August 28, 2018, committed the offence in the family house of the victim and threatened her not to tell anyone or she will die. SaharaReporters gathered that a few weeks after the incident, the girl began to complain of stomach pains and could not also walk properly. She was taken to a private hospital where a test confirmed that she had been raped. The victim later opened up and explained that Adanlawo, who also attends the same church with her father, forcefully had sexual intercourse with her. The case was first reported at Iju/Itaogbolu Police Division but later transferred to Ala Area Command in Akure. The primary school teacher in his confessional statement confirmed to the court that h...

Olawale Olayiwola, an employee of the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training, Oyo State, has narrated how some armed robbers hiding inside an uncompleted housing estate attacked him and his family members. Olayiwola, who spoke with SaharaReporters, said the robbery attack took place on July 18, 2020 at the Owode Housing Estate Phase II, leaving him with injuries that required medical attention at a hospital. He explained that the abandoned housing estate located along the Apata-Ibadan expressway in Oyo State had been left to decay for over 20 years, providing a hideout for criminal elements. “Two people came with masks and demanded we open the door. We tried to inform our neighbours but they started removing the burglary of the window and immediately they entered our apartment, they used axe to injure me and my wife before escaping through the window to other houses to rob. “My wife spent three days in a private hospital while I spent 19 days at UCH. In fact I w...

The Advocacy for Alleged Witches has urged the Niger State Government and the police in the state to take immediate measures to stop the planned ‘healing’ and witchcraft exorcism session in Mokwa by Hassan Patigi, a self-acclaimed healer and witchcraft exorcist. AFAW said it gathered that Patigi had commenced plans and will in coming days embark on his supposed witchcraft healing. The group said Patigi had attempted to carry out witchcraft healing in Kwara State but was cancelled after uproar by residents of Kwara. BBC It described the healing as a show of shame as Patigi had previously subjected some alleged witches to embarrassing and dehumanising treatment. “AFAW has reliably gathered that the self-acclaimed healer and witchcraft exorcist, Muhammad Hassan Patigi, who travelled for the Sallah celebrations, is now back in Mokwa town and is planning to commence his ‘healing’ activities. “AFAW has also been informed that Hassan Patigi’s planned ‘healing’ session in Lafiagi ...

The International Press Centre has berated the National Broadcasting Commission over the N5m fine imposed on Nigeria Info, a radio state, as penalty for comments made by a former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailaifa, on terrorism and insurgency in the country. Mailaifa had said that a Northern governor was a commander of Boko Haram and the group was planning a civil war in the country. The NBC management described the broadcast as “unprofessional” in a statement. Condemning the fine on the radio station, the International Press Centre stated that the commission imposed the fine without any evidence whatsoever that the alleged statement had degraded any person or groups of persons, which would have amounted to hate speech. See Also Sahara Reporters Nigeria’s Broadcast Regulator Orders Radio Station To Pay N5m Fine Over Mailafia’s Comments 0 Comments 9 Hours Ago Executive Director of IPC, Lanre Arogundade, in a statement by Olutoyin Ayoad...

Ascon Oil Company Ltd has denied a claim by Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC that it retook possession of its petrol station at Block 36, Admiralty Way, Lekki Phase 1, unlawfully. Ascon said it recovered the filling station with the assistance of court bailiffs pursuant to a July 24 order of Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court in Lagos. It rebutted the bank’s claim that it resorted to self-help and that its actions were contemptuous. Stanbic IBTC had in a statement on August 11 said that no court order was granted for the takeover of the property. “No court order was granted to Ascon to warrant their extra-judicial action, which they undertook in forcefully seizing a petrol station validly belonging to a third party, in total defiance and disregard of the ruling of Justice Liman of the Federal High Court on 24 July 2020.” But debunking Stanbic’s position in its own statement on Thursday, Ascon said, “We note that Stanbic IBTC PLC in its statement on August 11, 2020 stated...