Two teenagers docked for raping 9-year-old girl
Magistrate court
The Chief Magistrate, Tajudeen Elias, remanded the accused at the Correctional Centre for Boys in Isheri, a suburb of Lagos.
Mr. Elias adjourned the case till April 27 for bail application.
The accused, 15 and 16 years old, are students and living with their parents in Agege area of Lagos State.
The boys are facing a two-count charge of conspiracy and defilement.
The Prosecutor, Benedict Aigbokhan, had told the court that the offences were committed on April 5 at No. 21, James Okiki St., Agege, Lagos.
Mr. Aigbokhan said that the accused lured the girl to the house of one of them under the pretext of helping her with her home work.
“Thereafter, the accused defiled the girl,” he said.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
In a separate case, the court also ordered the remand of a 22-year-old man, Ajayi Michael, for allegedly raping a neighbour’s 4-year-old daughter.
The Chief Magistrate, Tajudeen Elias, ordered that the accused be remanded at Kirikiri Prison and adjourned the case till April 20 for the bail application.
The accused, an unemployed who lives at No. 8, Adeyemi St., Egbeda, a suburb of Lagos is being tried on a count charge of defilement.
The Prosecutor, Benedict Aigbokhan told the court that the offence was committed on April 2 at the accused residence.
Mr. Aigbokhan said that the accused called the victim into his room and raped her.
“The victim came out of the accused room touching her private part, and when she was asked, she told the mother it was “uncle that touched me,” Mr. Aigbokhan said.
The offence according to the prosecutor contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2011.
The accused, however, pleaded not guilty.
2019 election: PDP zones President to North, Vice President to South-East
As the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, prepares for its National Convention in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, on May 21, it is being reported that the party has zoned the positions of President and Vice President in the 2019 election to the North and South East, respectively.This was contained in a document obtained by Daily Sun on Thursday which indicates that the North will retain the seat of the Senate President while the South-South would be allowed to produce the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the national chairman of the party.
For the South West, the party afforded them the positions of deputy Senate President, deputy National Secretary and National Organising Secretary.
Aside producing the Vice Presidential candidate of the party, the South East will also have the positions of national legal adviser, national treasurer and national youth Leader.
The report added that apart from the North producing the President and Senate President, the region will also produce the deputy Speaker, deputy National Chairman and the party’s national secretary.
Other offices zoned to the region include the national financial secretary, national publicity secretary, national auditor and national women leader.
The document proposed that further zoning to the South for the May 21 PDP convention will be guided by so many factors, one of which is that South-West and South-South had produced the country’s presidents and that the South-East has not and should be given the opportunity for the highest office in the new dispensation.
Another factor is that the South-West and South-East had produced Speaker and President of the Senate, respectively, while the South-South has not tasted any of those.
The South-West had also produced the national treasurer, national youth leader, national financial secretary as well as the national legal adviser, while the South East has produced national women leader.
Records also show that the South South has also produced national secretary and national organising secretary while the South South and North Central traditionally swap positions in the party’s zoning arrangement.
The newspaper further reports that in the proposed 2016 zoning arrangement, the party stated that in order to give PDP a new lease of life, it was imperative that a clause in the guidelines for the 2016 National Convention be included, barring all those who had served the party, especially during the immediate past tenure of the outgoing National Working Committee, NWC, from contesting for any office in the incoming dispensation.
BREAKING: Court dismisses Saraki’s application, says embattled Senate President must face corruption trial
A Federal High Court in Abuja has again dismissed the application by Senate President Bukola Saraki seeking nullification of his ongoing trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.
Mr. Saraki is standing trial for alleged false asset declaration and fraud at the CCT, since September last year.
The Senate President had approached the court, asking it to put an end to his trial at the Tribunal, describing the trial as a breach of his fundamental human rights enshrined in Section Four of the 1999 constitution and an obstruction to his duties at the National Assembly.
But in his ruling, the trial Judge, Abdul Kafarati, held that the CCT is a constitutional body, in the discharge of its legal obligation which should not be interfered with by a court of law.
“I find that none of the claims fall within chapter four of the constitution”
“This court cannot interfere with the proceedings before the tribunal; it cannot also interfere with the duties of the respondents which have been imposed on them by law,” said Mr. Kafarati
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