Eastern province has from January 2025, to date, recorded over 200 defilement cases. Eastern Province Police Commanding ...

Truth! When law and morality contradict each other, the citizenry has the cruel alternative of either losing moral sense or respect for the law. To corroborate this proposition, the social contract ...

Legal Practitioner, Musah Ahmed has called for an expansion of the scope of the law on defilement to cover 17-year-olds in the country. According to him, because the law on defilement covers young ...

A Legal practitioner, Mr Isaiah Ode, has decried the rising incidents of defilement, as well as other forms of abuse of minors in the country. Ode made his feelings known in an interview with the News ...

Pregnant women attend antenatal at Aromo Health Centre III in October 2013. Sexual gender-based violence manifests in various forms such as defilement, rape, among others. PHOTO/ FILE. The notion of ...

At least 111 defilement cases have been recorded by the Nigeria Police Force in Lagos State within the period of three months – between April and June 2023. This was confirmed by the command’s ...

Even though Defilement is a criminal offence that attracts a minimum sentence of seven and a maximum of 25 years in Ghana’s Criminal Law and the Domestic Violence Act, 2007, some callous men still ...

The MIHOSO Foundation, a human rights and health centered Non-Governmental Organisation has condemned the alleged defilement of a nine-year-old girl at Jema in the Kintampo South District of the Bono ...

The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos has reserved judgment on the appeal filed by Dr. Olufemi Olaleye, the Medical Director of Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, challenging his conviction and sentencing ...