Following the Imo Governorship debacle that was dispensed with at the Supreme Court yesterday, political pundits have maintained that Imo should not be without a governor for 24 hours. It is their opinion that the Speaker of the Imo state House of Assembly, Chief Chiji Collins, being the highest ranking official of government should have […]
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, says the 9th National Assembly is irrevocably committed to protecting the interests of the people through diligent discharge of its legislative duties. He said the people of Surulere Federal Constituency-1 did not elect him to go and fight the executive. The Speaker said this on Sunday […]
The Supreme Court Friday trashed the appeal of former Governor Rochas Okorocha’s son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, and effectively buried his bid to establish that he was a governorship candidate in the last governorship election in Imo state. Addressing a press conference in Owerri, the Imo state capital, the National Chairman of the Action Peoples Party (APP) […]
.22% of female students in UNILAG are perpetrators The Africa Polling Institute (API) and Heart Minders Advancement Initiative have released a collaborative Survey Report on Rape and Sexual Abuse on Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria. The survey report, which focused on six tertiary institutions in Lagos state, has indicates that student cultists and lecturers are the […]
•15-20 % of rape victims are boys A damning statistics have revealed that over 60 percent of rape victims in Nigeria are children between 0-14 years, while a further 15-20 percent survivors are boys. This was the disclosed at the 5th Network Meeting of Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in Nigeria that ended on Friday […]
…My wife drove me into adultery A middle-aged woman, Mrs. Blessing Abu, who had filed a case of infidelity against her husband, Benjamin Abu urging the Igando Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her marriage, suddenly did a volte-face begging the court to spare her marriage. This is also as the husband; Benjamin told the […]
Women groups in the FCT, Monday, staged a walk around the metropolis, demanding speedy prosecution of perpetrators of rape and other sexual offences as a way of ending the menace in the country. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the walk took the women groups to the office of the Inspector-General of Police […]
Following the declaration of Chief Smart Adeyemi as the winner of the Kogi West senatorial election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Senator Dino Melaye who formally occupied the seat has declined to congratulate Adeyemi. Monitoring the activities of key players in the Kogi West Senatorial election, crimefacts.news can report that Dino Melaye took […]
Bethram Ike Onyenechere is a trained engineer and one of the surviving veterans of the Research and Production (RAP) unit of the defunct Biafran Army. Trained by Europeans at the Government Technical College (GTC), Enugu from 1955 to 1959, Onyenechere specialized as a Turner Fitter and Machinist. He was known to have his way with […]
A family Court in Owerri has remanded Mr. Okorie Agwu, a 42-year old Imo State Transport Corporation (ITC) driver for allegedly deceiving, defiling, assaulting and impregnating a thirteen year old girl. Crimefacts.news reports that the suspect, Agwu, is a father of five children, separated from his wife and hails from Arochukwu, Abia State. Until his […]
