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A 36 year old man, Abdulkareem Yahaya Danmallam, has been sentenced to a 10-year jail term after he was convicted of defiling a primary school pupil in Kano. A Federal High Court presided by Justice K K.Dagat on Wednesday in Kano found him guilty, holding that the suspect did not deserve to live within society. The court, in addition, ordered him to pay N1 million as fine as additional punishment for the offense he committed. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), had on 21st February 2018, arraigned the suspect before the court over a charge of luring and sexually violating a minor (name withheld). The prosecutor, Barrister Abdullahi Babale had told the court that the convict lured the victim on her way to school, adding that he extended a “gift” of N10 (Ten Naira only) to the innocent girl following which he proceeded to defile her. The prosecutor also affirmed that the suspect, by his action, violated the provision of Section 16(1) of t...

The president of the African Bar Association (AfBA), Mr. Hannibal Uwaifo, has charged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the petitions against the Chairman, All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. Uwaifo stressed that the president must sanction the probe if indeed, he wants to prove that the anti-graft war is not selective as alleged by some Nigerians, adding that having such individual as the head of his party is a stain on him (Buhari). “Even though I can give a good mark to the government for the anti-corruption fight, there are so many areas, where they are failing. It is true that a lot of members of the ruling party have not been touched. “The chairman of the ruling APC, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole has a mountain of petition against him. Has he been summoned by EFCC to answer to the petitions? Is it not a stain on Mr. President to be harbouring a man on whom a petition has been written against? Those ...