ABUJA  – Nigerian rights campaigners took to the streets of the capital Abuja on Friday to raise awareness about sexual violence in the West African country after a series of high-profile rape cases. #JusticeforUwa has trended on social media in the last week after Vera Uwaila Omosuwa, a 22-year-old student, died two days after she was raped in a church in the southern city of Benin. More than 200 protesters marched around police headquarters in...

The Police Command in Ogun, said on Thursday, that it had arrested a 25-year-old Wasiu Bankole for alleged forceful carnal knowledge of a 70-year-old woman. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, made this disclosure in a statement in Abeokuta. The spokesman said that Bankole allegedly committed the offence on Tuesday at Abule Lemode area of Ijoko in Ifo Local Government Area of the state. Oyeyemi stated that the suspect was arrested...

The Adamawa state police command has confirmed the arrest of its officer shot dead a 20-year-old commercial motorcycle operator who refused to part with N100 at a checkpoint in Maiha local government. Wuro-ba Adamu village of Maiha local government was on Monday engulfed in tension after a policeman, Cpl. Richard Zaphet allegedly shot dead a 20-year-old commercial motorcycle operator. The commercial motorcycle operator identified as Arabo Dauda Tambajam was said to have refused to part...

Suspected bandits have shot dead the District Head of Yantumaki, Alhaji Abu Atiku, 60, in Danmusa Local Government Area (LGA) of Katsina State. The state Police Public Relations’ Officer (PPRO), SP Gambo Isah, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Katsina. Isah said that the attackers invaded the area on Sunday at about 11.55 p.m. with AK47 rifles. He said that they attacked the residence of the deceased and shot him dead. The PPRO...