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  • Lesson teacher impregnates 14-year-old, gets life imprisonment

    A lesson teacher, Joseph Ibanga, has been handed life imprisonment for defilement and impregnating a 14-year-old girl who was his student.

    Justice Abiola Soladoye of the Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court made the pronouncement on Monday.

    The judge said the offence is punishable under Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which stipulates life imprisonment for offenders found guilty.

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    The prosecution presented three witnesses at the trial, while the defendant had no witness and spoke in his own defence.

    The prosecution team made up of Olusola Soneye, Olufunke Adegoke, and Abimbola Abolade, told the court that the defendant committed the offence between January and March 2019 at No.12, Iresi Street, Orile-Agege, Lagos.

    They all submitted that the defendant was a lesson teacher, who taught the survivor at home because she was not in school “for a long time due to slow learning.”

    The prosecution said the defendant raped the minor where she lived with her aunt whenever he went to teach her.

    She subsequently became pregnant and had a baby.

    Delivering judgment in the matter, Justice Soladoye said the prosecution proved the charge of defilement against the convict.

    She said, “The survivor was a minor and her consent is immaterial. The evidence before the court showed that the defendant had sex with the victim in her home and in the defendant’s own matrimonial home.

    “She subsequently became pregnant and had a baby.

    “The medical report corroborated the evidence against the defendant. The defendant is responsible for the act and there is evidence before the court to prove same.

    “The survivor identified the defendant as her lesson teacher and the person who had sexual intercourse with her without her consent.

    “The defendant is very ungrateful and wicked, ravished the student with impunity and taught her nonsense. Ibanga has brought ridicule to the teaching profession and this punishment will serve as a lesson to him and warning to others.

    “The defendant is hereby found guilty as charged based on the avalanche of evidence against him, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment.”

    In addition, the judge ordered that the convict should have his name entered into the register of sexual offenders of Lagos State.

  • UPDATE: NDDC Director, Etang died of COVID-19, Commission shuts down operations

    UPDATE: NDDC Director, Etang died of COVID-19, Commission shuts down operations

    Amid the financial crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Ibanga Bassey Etang, Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission is dead.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Etang, who was appointed on the 18 of December 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari into the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NDDC died of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Wednesday night.

    The development has forced the NDDC to shut down operations for two weeks with immediate effect, with a directive for staff to go into self-Isolation immediately.

    The statement also noted that within the two weeks, the entire offices of the Commission would be fumigated.

    The statement signed by Silas Anyanwu reads: “I am directed to inform all staff that Management has approved that the Commission be shut down for Two Weeks from today 28th May, 2020.

    “Consequently, all activities in the Commission including ongoing matters are hereby shutdown for the time being.

    “Members of staff are to ensure that all electrical appliances in their offices are switched off before leaving the premises.

    “The Head Security is by this memo directed to work out modalities to ensure the safety and security of the Commission while Director Administration is requested to fumigate and decontaminate the entire offices and premises in the Headquarters during the period.

    “Meanwhile staff are enjoined to go into self-Isolation for two weeks as they await further directive from Management”.

    Etang’s death is coming amid the forensic audit of the Commission ordered by President Buhari.

    The National Assembly is also probing the finances of the NDDC under its present IMC.

    The body of Etang has been wheeled to the ‘Holding Area’, called ‘COVID-19 Area’, of Braithwaite Memorial Hospital, Port Harcourt.

  • BREAKING: NDDC Director of Finance, Ibanga Bassey Etang is dead

    BREAKING: NDDC Director of Finance, Ibanga Bassey Etang is dead

    Amid the financial crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Ibanga Bassey Etang, Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration of the Commission is dead.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Mr Ibanga Bassey Etang was appointed on the 18 of December 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari into the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the NDDC.

    The Acting Executive Director of Finance and Administration of the NDDC was confirmed dead on Thursday morning, TNG learnt.

     

    Details shortly…