Boko Haram gov: Mailafia secures injunction, turns down police invitation
A former deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr Obadiah Mailafia, on Monday failed to honour the invitation by the police in Abuja. Mailafia’s lawyer, Yakubu Bawa, who addressed a press conference in Jos on Monday, faulted the police invitation, saying he “find the service of the letter of invitation on Dr Mailafia by the Nigerian Police Force through the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Force Criminal Investigation Department, strange and alien to our extant laws and procedure.” The police had last week invited Mailafia to appear at the Force Headquarters in Abuja on Monday.
Man rapes daughter to confirm her virginity
A 37-year-old guard, Wasiu Orilonise has publicly confessed that he raped his 15-year-old daughter for verification of her virginity and protection. Wasiu who appeared in Oyo State Magistrates’ Court sitting in Ibadan, however, appealed to the court to forgive him as he did that only to confirm if her daughter was still a virgin. The prosecutor, Mr Sunday Ogunremi, told the court that the accused had sometime in December 2018 at Omo village, Agbofieti, Ibadan, in the Ibadan Magisterial District, raped the victim without her consent. Ogunremi said the offence was contrary to and punishable under Section 34, sub-sections 1
