A magistrate’s court sitting in Ilorin has remanded the Chief Medical Director (CMD) of Ayodele Hospital, Dr. Ayodele Joseph for allegedly raping a patient, who came for treatment in his hospital at Sawmill area, Ilorin, Kwara State. Police report during the court proceeding on Wednesday sated that the defendant sedated the patient – who is a professional nurse – and …

A 23-year-old assistant pastor on Tuesday told an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court how a bishop, Daniel Oluwafeyiropo, allegedly raped her twice. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Oluwafeyiropo is standing trial on an amended three-count charge bordering on rape and sexual assault, to which he pleaded not guilty. The assistant pastor (name withheld) testified for …

A woman who was repeatedly raped by both her father and brother as a child has revealed that a crucial medical document she had no memory of helped jail the pair. Sarah Sidebottom, 54, from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, has spoken of her relief after her father Arthur William Bowditch, 73, and her brother, Arthur Stephen Bowditch, 54, was jailed for …

Typically, sexually attacked children survivors are reluctant to come forward because they fear being mocked in public. Yet, such is not the case for 15-year-old Binta Isa, a deaf and dumb girl who is accused of being raped by two powerful young boys in the Kyena community of the Obi Local Government Area of Nasarawa State. Although she had to …

A man identified as Arinze Obiwenite has been arrested for allegedly defiling his 12-year-old daughter. Obiwente, who was also accused of using diabolic means to run a “healing” ministry, was arrested during a raid in his home in Abacha community, Idemili North Local Government Area of Anambra State upon a tipoff from a whistleblower. The state commissioner for Women and …

Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi, one of the stars of Morocco’s historic charge to the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup last year, was charged with rape on Friday. Hakimi, 24, was charged after being questioned by prosecutors on Thursday about accusations made by a 24-year-old woman who cannot be identified. The Madrid-born player trained with his teammates on Friday. …