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  • Man City star charged with four counts of rape

    Man City star charged with four counts of rape

    Manchester City defender Benjamin Mendy has been charged with four counts of rape and one count of sexual assault, Cheshire police have said.

    Mendy, 27, is due to appear in court on Friday and has been suspended by City pending an investigation.

    The force said the charges relate to three complainants, over the age of 16, and are alleged to have happened between October last year and this month.

    France international Mendy has been remanded in custody ahead of his appearance at Chester Magistrates’ Court, police said.

    A police spokesman said: “Cheshire Constabulary and the Crown Prosecution Service would like to remind everyone that criminal proceedings against Mendy are live and that he has a right to a fair trial.”

    Mendy joined City from Monaco in 2017 and has since been part of three Premier League title-winning squads, as well as lifting the English League Cup twice.

    In a statement, Manchester City said: “Manchester City can confirm that following his being charged by police today, Benjamin Mendy has been suspended pending an investigation.

    “The matter is subject to a legal process and the club is therefore unable to make further comment until that process is complete.”

    Since his arrival at City four years ago, injuries have limited his playing time, with the defender undergoing knee surgery in the 2018-19 season.

    Mendy, who has played for France 10 times and won the World Cup in 2018, played against Tottenham on the opening weekend of the Premier League season but didn’t feature against Norwich last weekend.

    City host Arsenal in the Premier League on Saturday

  • Rape: Group petitions Port Harcourt CP over randy pastor

    Rape: Group petitions Port Harcourt CP over randy pastor

    A Civil rights advocacy group has sent a petition to the Rivers State Commissioner of Police complaining against one Pastor Tony Titus Daniel for allegedly raping a 20-year-old.

    According to reports, Mr. Tony Titus Daniel from Akwa/Ibom State, who claims to be a Pastor and General Overseer of Jesus Alive Word Refiners INTL Church at Elechi/Wokoma Street Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, conspired with his Personal Assistant who is also a Choir member known as Miss Favour and another lady to rape the victim.

    The 20-year-old victim who explained the reason she openly protested at the front of the church last Sunday, said Mr Daniel and his Personal Assistant, Ms Favour invited her to a place around Wimpey junction, Ikwerre Road, Port Harcourt, to resolve issues they were having with the Pastor’s wife whose church is located in the compound she resides.

    The victim who is a hairstylist said she obliged to meet them after Ms Favour, who is also her customer persuaded her that the Pastor’s wife will also be in the meeting.

    The victim stated that she noticed the place was a Guest House upon arrival but was not suspicious of anything since Ms Favour was in the place.

    The victim alleged that few minutes after she got inside the room, Mr Daniel locked the door and increased the volume of the Television set, while Ms Favour and the other lady whom she does not know her identity, held down on the floor against her as the Pastor raped her.

    She further alleged that the Pastor and his accomplices forced her to swear an oath with a substance suspected to be ‘juju’ not to reveal to anybody what transpired in the place or she dies.

    Not able to bear the shame, betrayed and trauma arising from the rape, reports have it that she damned the oath and openly protested at the front of the church after Sunday service to draw the attention of Nigerians to the alleged continuous harassment and threat to her life in the hands of the Pastor even after the rape incident.

    In the meantime, Counsel with Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign, a human rights advocacy group, Festus Bonwin, told PM News Correspondent that the group petitioned the Commissioner of Police in Rivers State, CP Eboka Friday, upon receiving a report from the 20-year-old girl, to demand a thorough investigation into the allegation made by the victim against the Pastor.

    Bonwin said the group is also asking that the Police to provide adequate security for the alleged victim as feelers indicate that there are threats from some quarters against her.

    Daniel was detained at Azikiwe Divisional Police headquarters Mile Two, Diobu Port Harcourt on 18th March 2020, after one Mr. Ndidi Austin stormed Daniel’s church alleging that he caught his wife with the Pastor in a hotel.

    Daniel, however, denied the allegation stating that the place Mr Austin saw him and his wife was not a hotel.

    As at the time of filing this report, PM News correspondent gathered that the Commissioner of Police, CP Friday Eboka, has minuted the petition filed by the Centre for Basic Rights Protection and Accountability Campaign to the Human Rights Desk at Police headquarters, Moscow road headed by SP Nnamdi Omoni for proper investigation .

  • TRENDING: Abuja pastor jailed for life over rape

    TRENDING: Abuja pastor jailed for life over rape

    Justice Peter Kekemeke of the FCT High Court, Nyanya, on Wednesday sentenced a 29- year-old Pastor Stephen Kalu to life imprisonment for raping a 17- year-old girl.

    The convict, a preacher at Adoration Ministry, Karshi, Abuja, was arraigned before the court by the police on a two-count charge of rape on 16 Oct. 2019.

    The police said the convict had sex with a 17-year-old girl on Oct. 28, 2018 at his residence in Karshi, Abuja, without her consent.

    They said this was contrary to section 31 (1) of the Child’s Right Act and punishable under 31 (2) of the same Act.

    Delivering judgment in the matter, Kekemeke held that the prosecuting counsel, Donatus Abah, had proved his case beyond reasonable doubt.

    He added that the defendant admitted that he slept with the girl several times, resulting in a pregnancy and the birth of a baby girl.

    The judge held further that although the defendant promised to marry her, the offence had been committed already and the law must take its course.

    Kekemeke ruled that count two was not relevant and convicted the defendant on count one, which contravened section 31 (1)of the Child’s Right Act.

    ” The defendant is found guilty on count one and accordingly convicted,” the judge ruled.

    In sentencing the defendant, Kekemeke said that the section he was charged attracted a punishment of life imprisonment.

    ” Our society, especially this division of the court, has seen several cases of rape.

    “It is a pathetic situation, the system must be expunged of rapists, our children need protection from our courts.

    ”The law is already there, the same defendant committed a similar offence of rape while on bail, during the period of this case.

    “He is a danger to our children, I have no choice, the defendant is hereby sentenced to life imprisonment,” he ruled.

  • Eight suspects arraigned over murder, rape of 300level UNILORIN student

    Eight suspects arraigned over murder, rape of 300level UNILORIN student

    Eight suspects were on Wednesday arraigned over the rape and murder of Blessing Olajide, a 300 level student of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN).

    She was allegedly raped and murdered at her Tanke residence along the University road in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.

    Some valuable items were also carted away from the residence.

    The suspects who allegedly carried out the dastardly act were later arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Security (DSS) and currently standing trial before Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of an Ilorin High Court.

    They are being charged for criminal conspiracy, rape, armed robbery, culpable homicide, and receiving stolen properties.

    The case was however adjourned till July 6 as three out of the eight suspects do not have legal representation.

  • LASU student bags 21 years’ imprisonment

    LASU student bags 21 years’ imprisonment

    An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced a student of Lagos State University (LASU), Afeez Ogunbowale, to 21 years’ imprisonment for involvement in armed robbery and rape of two fellow LASU students.

    According to reports, Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo sentenced Ogunbowale after finding him guilty of five counts bordering on conspiracy, rape and armed robbery.

    Taiwo said that prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.

    She held that testimony of the victims were compelling, adding that they were able to positively identify Ogunbowale as one of the culprits.

    “The defendant is hereby sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for conspiracy, 21 years’ imprisonment each for counts of armed robbery and 21 years’ imprisonment each for counts of rape.

    “The sentences are to run concurrently,” she said.

    On hearing the sentence, Ogunbowale who has been suspended by LASU over the case, wept profusely at the dock.

    NAN reports that prosecution team led by Mrs O.A Bajulaiye-Bishi, had said that the defendant committed the offences alongside others who are at large, on April 18, 2018, at the Okokomaiko area of Lagos.

    “The defendant and his accomplices, while armed with a gun, knife, machete and bottle, robbed the two students in their off campus accommodation.

    “They were robbed of their phones, power bank, earpiece, gold chain and N1, 200.

    “The defendant and one of his accomplices who is still at large had unlawful sexual intercourse with the complainants.

    “The offences contravene Sections 260(1) and 297(2)(a) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015,” she said.

    NAN reports that in their testimonies on Nov. 4, 2019, the two students, told the court that they lost their virginities to the attack.

    The witnesses said they were robbed by five men but raped by two members of the gang – Ogunbowale and another – who is at large.

    They said that they were able to identify Ogunbowale through Facebook, adding that they belonged to the same faculty.

    The complainants testified that when they confronted the convict at a police station, he prostrated and begged for forgiveness.

    In his defence on Sept. 30, 2020, the convict denied involvement in the crime and gave an alibi to the court.

    Led in evidence by defence counsel, Mr Bisi Salau, he said that on the night the offences were committed, he was in the school premises preparing for an examination which was to begin in May 2018.

  • ‘I raped her everyday for five months’, bandit who kidnapped 18-year-old housewife confesses

    ‘I raped her everyday for five months’, bandit who kidnapped 18-year-old housewife confesses

    A notorious kidnapper and rapist known as Surajo Dauda, has revealed the gruesome ordeal he put one of his victims through while she was in his custody.

    Dauda who was apprehended by police in Katsina State confessed to kidnapping a certain 18-year-old housewife, Jamila Auwal, and raping her daily for the duration she was held captive.

    A spokesman for the police in Katsina State, SP Gambo Isah, noted that the married woman was taken from Tandama village after she was drugged.

    Mr. Isah who disclosed this while parading the suspects before the command headquarters in Katsina on Friday added that Dauda confessed to having abducted the victim, locking her up for five months in a room, and defiling her on a daily basis.

    Meanwhile, one Abdullahi Isiyaku (‘M’, aged 30yrs) of Wardanga village in Bakori LGA of Katsina state reported at Danja Division on June 17th, 2021, that sometime in January 2020, he travelled to Lagos to earn a living and left his wife behind, one Zainab Ahmed, (“F”, aged 20 yrs), under the care of her parents at Unguwar Dantalle village of Tandama area in Danja LGA of Katsina state.

    He however noted that when he returned earlier in June, he met his wife with a four months old baby girl. In the course of an investigation, the lady stated that she was indoctrinated into a new Islamic Sect called “Hakika” by three suspected rapists who jointly had carnal knowledge of her.

    The suspects – Tukur Dan-Azumi, (m, aged 19yrs), Abubakar Yahuza, (m, aged 20yrs), Rufa’i Saosi, (‘m’, 27yrs) all of Unguwar Dantalle in Tandama
    village area Danja, have now been apprehended.

    The police say all the suspects will be charged to court after investigations have been concluded.

  • I suffered psychosis, got pregnant after being raped by music producer-Lady Gaga

    I suffered psychosis, got pregnant after being raped by music producer-Lady Gaga

    Popular US singer, Stefani Germanotta better known as Lady Gaga has stated that she had a “total psychotic break” after a sexual assault at 19 left her pregnant.

    The acclaimed singer spoke on her experience with rape for the umpteenth time when she featured on ‘The Me You Can’t See’, an AppleTV+ docuseries, co-created by Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey.

    Gaga first talked about the incident during a chat with radio DJ Howard Stern in 2014.

    A year later, she said: “I didn’t tell anyone for I think seven years. I didn’t know how to accept it. I didn’t know how to not blame myself or think it was my fault. It changed who I was completely. It changed my body, it changed thoughts.”

    TheNewsGuru recalls that in January 2020, she also narrated how she developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as a result of being raped and also not able to processes that trauma.

    But in the cutting-edge docuseries, Gaga revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a music producer who threatened to burn her music if she didn’t take off her clothes at the time.

    “I was 19 years old, and I was working in the business, and a producer said to me, ‘Take your clothes off,” she said.

    “And I said no. And I left, and they told me they were going to burn all of my music. And they didn’t stop. They didn’t stop asking me, and I just froze and – I don’t even remember.”

    The award-winning singer added that “the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner…because I was vomiting and sick”.

    According to her, the experience culminated in years of trauma which left her in an “ultra state of paranoia”. She added that the trauma was still on when she won an Oscar in 2019.

    “First I felt full-on pain, then I felt numb, and then I was sick for weeks after,” she narrated her experience at the hospital after the sexual assault.

    “I realised that it was the same pain that I felt when the person who raped me dropped me off pregnant on a corner [by] my parent’s house because I was vomiting and sick. Because I had been abused, and I was locked away in a studio for months.

    “I had a total psychotic break and for a couple of years, I was not the same girl. The way that I feel when I feel pain was how I felt after I was raped.

    “I’ve had so many MRIs and scans where they don’t find nothing. But your body remembers.”

     

  • Baba Ijesha asked my foster daughter to sit on his penis- Princess recounts how actor allegedly raped female minor [VIDEO]

    Baba Ijesha asked my foster daughter to sit on his penis- Princess recounts how actor allegedly raped female minor [VIDEO]

    Actress and comedienne, Damilola Adekoya a.k.a Princess has recounted how her colleague, Omiyinka Olanrewaju a.k.a Baba Ijesha allegedly raped her foster daughter.

    Sharing the details during an interview with TVC’s Your View on Friday, 30th of April, Princess maintained Baba Ijesha had raped her foster daughter before she decided to plant CCTV cameras to catch him in the act.

    Princess said that “He (Baba Ijesha) asked her (the alleged rape victim) to remove her pant, he removed his pant, asked her to sit on his penis and start riding him. Then she felt a wetness all over her body”.

    While describing her experience seven years ago with Baba Ijesha, the comedienne stood firm that Baba Ijesha’s offence is more than a case of molestation, but rape.

    “No, she was raped. Immediately, she told us, she wrote a statement with the police, explained how it was done.

    “He asked her to remove her pant, he removed his pant, asked her to sit on his penis and start riding him. Then she felt a wetness all over her body. He brought out a handkerchief and cleaned it. He asked her to go and bring a towel to clean the remaining.

    “Then he came about a day or two later to tell me that he brought food for us and I told him that I am not going outside.

    “He asked her to follow him to collect the food. When she bent down to collect the food, he inserted the key in her private part”.

     

    On Sunday, the footage of how Baba Ijesha allegedly molested minor was released on social media.This sparked various comments from Nigerians on the cyberspace.

  • Why Uduak murdered Iniobong Umoren – Police

    Why Uduak murdered Iniobong Umoren – Police

    The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed arresting 20-year-old Uduak Frank Akpan in connection with the unthinkable brutal murder of Iniobong Umoren.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the police command confirmed the arrest on Sunday, giving an insight into why the daredevil Uduak murdered the budding young lady in cold blood.

    According to the police in a statement released by Odiko Macdon, the State Police Public Relations Officer, Uduak raped Umoren before killing her and burying her in a shallow grave.

    The police in the statement revealed that Uduak killed Umoren to cover his tracks after luring her to his house in the guise of giving her a job, but ended up sexually and physically assaulting her.

    The statement reads: “The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested one Uduak Frank Akpan, 20 years old for kidnapping, raping and murdering one Miss Iniobong Umoren.

    “On 30/04/2021, the Command received a report on the disappearance of the victim.

    “Following available leads, men of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Command, led by CSP Inengiye Igosi, consolidated on the initial great progress made by the DPO Uruan, SP Samuel Ezeugo and arrested the perpetrator who confessed to have lured his victim to his house in the guise of giving her a job, but ended up sexually and physically assaulting her which led to her death.

    “To cover his tracks, he dragged and buried her in a shallow grave in his father’s compound.

    “The deceased has been exhumed and deposited at UYTH (University Of Uyo Teaching Hospital) for autopsy.

    “The suspect confessed to have told his Local Government Chairman of his atrocity before escaping to Calabar and was never at anytime handed over to the Police by anyone.

    “Suspect is a confessed serial rapist who has owned up to the raping of other victims. He will be charged to court at the conclusion of investigation.

    “The Commissioner of Police, CP Amienghene Andrew, has called on youths and job seekers to be wary of the activities of scammers and other men of the underworld.

    “While appreciating the efforts of the social media family and other fighters of injustice, he has condoled with the family and friends of the deceased.”

    Meanwhile, the police, has also confirmed no parts of the deceased body were dismembered, ruling out ritual killing.

     

    However, reactions have continued to trail the brutal murder of Umoren by Uduak.

    Especially, a public, televised trial have been demanded of the rapist, his father, his cousin and any other accomplices.

    See reactions on Umoren’s murder below:

    https://twitter.com/firstdoctorr/status/1388844748681662468?s=19

  • Iniobong Umoren: How job-seeking lady was found raped, murdered, buried in shallow grave

    Iniobong Umoren: How job-seeking lady was found raped, murdered, buried in shallow grave

    The unexpected has happened as a job-seeking young lady, Iniobong Umoren who had been declared missing, has been found raped, brutally murdered and buried in a shallow grave in Akwa Ibom State.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the deceased was alleged to have on Thursday, April 29, 2021 went for a job interview at an undisclosed location along Airport Road in the outskirts of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

     

    Umoren’s friend that goes by the Twitter handle: @UmohUduak1 first raised the alarm, and initiated the search for her missing friend, with no one ever expecting the unthinkable and the tragedy that has struck.

    The young lady with life and a future has had her life snuffed out of her and cut short by her abductor, one Uduak Frank Akpan, reportedly from Nung Ikot Obio.

    Umoren’s friend narrated how about two hours after leaving home for the supposed job interview, she reportedly made a frantic phone call where she was heard screaming before the call abruptly ended.

    “Her phone line has been switched off ever since,” @UmohUduak1 recapped, and soon after, the social media went viral with her story which saw the Internet being used to unmask her abductor.

    https://twitter.com/UmohUduak1/status/1387794751777386497?s=19

    24 hours later, Nigerians on social media provided evidence, locations, contacts and almost everything needed to unmask her kidnapper with the hope that the intelligence provided will help in finding the missing young lady and bring his abductor to justice.

    The suspect was alleged to have taken the late Miss Umoren to his house where an argument ensued and in the process, he used an object to hit her on the head resulting in her death. He was alleged to have hurriedly buried her in a shallow grave and ran to Oron to hide.

    Following pressure by the Police and Nigerians on social media, Oron became uncomfortable for him and he ran back to Uruan.

    The Chairman of Uruan LGA, Surv. Iniobong Ekpeyong was said to have met the accused cousin and asked him to bring the accused to him.

    When he was taken before the Chairman, he was asked to be truthful about what actually transpired.

    It was there he confessed to his Local Government Chairman that he actually killed and buried her in a shallow grave.

    A shocked Surv Ekpeyong had no choice but to call the DPO of Uruan LGA and handed over the suspect to the Police for further investigation and prosecution.

    However, @UmohUduak1 later revealed that the abductor of Umoren actually raped her before she was brutally murdered.

    “They raped and killed my friend,” she tweeted.

    https://twitter.com/UmohUduak1/status/1388768717849432064?s=19

    https://twitter.com/UmohUduak1/status/1388757799107235842?s=19

    Meanwhile, the police had confirmed that two suspects had been arrested and that investigation was ongoing.

    Meanwhile, Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed arresting one Uduak Frank Akpan in connection to the disappearance of the job seeker.

    According to the State Police Public Relations Officer, Odiko Macdon, in a statement released on Sunday, 20-year-old Akpan lured Umoren to his residence under the pretext of offering her a job before he raped, killed and buried the young graduate.

    The statement reads: “The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has arrested one Uduak Frank Akpan, 20 years old for kidnapping, raping and murdering one Miss Iniobong Umoren.

    “On 30/04/2021, the Command received a report on the disappearance of the victim.

    “Following available leads, men of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of the Command, led by CSP Inengiye Igosi, consolidated on the initial great progress made by the DPO Uruan, SP Samuel Ezeugo and arrested the perpetrator who confessed to have lured his victim to his house in the guise of giving her a job, but ended up sexually and physically assaulting her which led to her death.

    “To cover his tracks, he dragged and buried her in a shallow grave in his father’s compound.

    “The deceased has been exhumed and deposited at UYTH (University Of Uyo Teaching Hospital) for autopsy.

    “The suspect confessed to have told his Local Government Chairman of his atrocity before escaping to Calabar and was never at anytime handed over to the Police by anyone.

    “Suspect is a confessed serial rapist who has owned up to the raping of other victims. He will be charged to court at the conclusion of investigation.

    “The Commissioner of Police, CP Amienghene Andrew, has called on youths and job seekers to be wary of the activities of scammers and other men of the underworld.

    “While appreciating the efforts of the social media family and other fighters of injustice, he has condoled with the family and friends of the deceased.”