2 remanded in prison for murder, rape

An Ado-Ekiti Chief Magistrate Court on Friday remanded two men in prison for allegedly killing a woman after raping her.

The accused men, Olanipekun Omoniyi and Yemi Adegoke, both resident in Igede-Ekiti, were alleged to have committed the offence on Nov. 8 at about 5.30 a.m.

The police prosecutor, Mr David Emmanuel, told the court that the accused persons laid ambush for one Mrs Titilayo Ogundele, along Irona street in Igede-Ekiti.

``This was while she was on her way to her place of business. The accused men then raped the 35-year-old woman and hit her with a mortar after the act,’’ he said.

Emmanuel added that the woman, who lived at No. 60, Anaye street in Igede-Ekiti, died at the scene of the act as a result of the attack on her.

He said the offence was a contravention of the Criminal Code.

TheNo plea was taken from the accused men and they had no legal representation.

The prosecutor told the court that he had duplicated the case file and sent it to the office of the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for legal advice.

The Chief Magistrate, Mr Simeon Ojo, ordered that the accused persons should be remanded in prison pending the DPP's advice.

Ojo later adjourned the case to Jan. 9, 2014 for hearing.

Armed Robbers raid students' hostel, rape 17 year old virgin to coma

A Seventeen year old female student of the University of Calabar, name withheld, was raped to a state of coma by armed robbers who raided the hostel she and several  other colleagues are living on Tuesday night  in Calabar.

The robbers, according to a fair complexioned  male student who gave his name as Ngoli, attacked  the hostel located at Mount Zion Road/ Inyang Edem Street  at about 2am and raped all the female students and carted away all their  laptops and cell phones.

“They stared by firing warning shots into the air to warn us that they came for serious business and thereafter went from room to room battering everybody and raping the female students one after the other”.

He said the girl that went into coma was still a virgin that made all the robbers want to have a taste of her. “The first one to pounce on her announced to the rest that she was still a virgin and that made everyone of them go after her and in the process she bled seriously yet they would not allow her go".


Information from Vanguard newspaper was used in this report.

Aladura Pastor rapes woman in church during ‘spiritual bath’

A 46-year-old Pastor, Olamide Sobowale, of Glory Church of Christ Aladura, Oke-Itoku, Abeokuta, Ogun State, has been ordered to be remanded in prison for allegedly raping a woman while bathing in his church backyard.
Pastor Sobowale, who was arraigned before a Magistrate Court sitting in Isabo, Abeokuta, yesterday, was accused of raping one Dupe Makinde, 30, who lives in Isaje, Abeokuta, while taking a spiritual bath allegedly recommended by the pastor.
The prosecuting counsel, Paul Etusi, told the court that the accused grabbed the complainant while she was in a bathroom within the church premises and raped her.
Etusi said the complainant had already put the soap on her face as she began bathing when the pastor suddenly entered the bathroom, grabbed and raped her with soap on her face.
According to Etusi, the accused had told Mrs. Makinde that he had a vision about her and asked her to come for deliverance in his church.
He said: “He asked the woman to come to the church to take a spiritual bath for her deliverance, but, while the complainant was taking her bath, the accused barged into the bathroom, grabbed the woman and raped her.
“The accused has committed an offence contrary to section 357 and punishable under section 358 of criminal code of law of Ogun State, Nigeria, 2006.”
Magistrate A. Araba after listening to the prosecuting counsel, ordered that the accused be remanded in prison till he gets advice from the Director of Public Prosecution and adjourned the case till September 16, 2013.

EKSU dismisses randy lecturer

…staff escape rape

The management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, has dismissed a  randy lecturer of the institution.

The Registar of the University, Dr. Omojola Awosusi who failed to name the dismissed lecturer, said the action of the institution was a warning signal to the university community that gender-based violence will not be treated with levity.

Dr. Awosusi also disclosed that a non-academic staff of the former University of Ado-Ekiti would have been raped if not for the timely intervention of passers-by who heard her shout.

The disclosure by the Registrar was a rude shock to the wife of the governor of the state, Mrs. Bisi Fayemi and the commissioner for Women Affairs, Social Development and Gender Empowerment, Mrs. Fola Richie-Adewusi who led the Gender-based violence prohibition Law (GBVL) management committee on advocacy visit to the Ekiti state owned university.

Mrs. Fayemi enjoined the University management to vharge internal security personnel to take gender-ased violence issues seriously with prompt report of such cases to the appropriate authority. She also canvassed for the establishment of gender-based violence prohibition support club in the university, with membership cutting across students and lecturers.