30 Year Old Man Arrested For Giving 9 Year Old Boy A Blowjob In Lagos

Emeji Christopher, a 30 year old unemployed man, was charged on Wednesday before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly sucking the genitals of a 9 year old boy.

The prosecutor, Inspector Rita Momoh, disclosed that the accused committed the offence at Jaja Hall toilet of the University of Lagos in Akoka.

According to the Nigerian Tribune, Inspector Momoh said that the accused lured the little boy into one of the toilets in the hall where he began to give the child a blowjob.

According to inspector Momoh: "The police have been on the lookout for the accused following a report by his parents. The accused was only apprehended recently after he was seen roaming the university aimlessly."

Chief Magistrate, Mr P. A. Adeeyo, granted the accused bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case to October 12 for substantive trial.

UN troops probed for the rape of 12yr old girl & killing of a 16yr old boy in Central African Republic

According to France's Defence Ministry, the alleged abuse and killings took place between Dec 2013 & June 2014 at a centre for displaced people at M'Poko airport in the capital Bangul. The UN mission in the Central African Republic on Tuesday, August 11th launched a probe into the allegations.

The probe was opened following allegations made by London-based rights watchdog Amnesty International, which said the alleged incidents took place on August 2 and 3 as Rwandan and Cameroonian peacekeepers were conducting an operation in the capital, Bangui.

 

In an initial response, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "dismayed and disappointed" by the latest claims of sexual abuse by peacekeepers, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York.

 

"Our evidence strongly suggests that a UN peacekeeper raped a young girl and that other UN peacekeepers indiscriminately killed two civilians," said Joanne Mariner, Senior Crisis Response Adviser at Amnesty International.

 

The UN mission, known by its French acronym of MINUSCA, said through its spokesman Hamadoun Toure that it was "not aware" of the allegations but was taking the matter "very seriously."

 

"We have opened a probe," Toure told AFP, saying the mission would seek "established and verifiable proof."

Dujarric said the UN chief was taking the situation "very seriously" and was expected to issue a formal statement.

     "No misconduct of this nature can be tolerated," he told reporters. "This is clearly not only not normal, it is not acceptable. The secretary general is considering the situation very seriously."

The two alleged incidents took place during an operation to arrest a former rebel chief in the Muslim PK5 district of the capital on August 2 and 3 in which five people were killed, including a Cameroonian peacekeeper.Dozens of people were also injured.

 

Amnesty said it had interviewed 15 witnesses immediately after both incidents, as well as the girl and members of her family.

A nurse who examined the girl found medical evidence consistent with sexual assault.

"The girl had been hiding in a bathroom during a house search at approximately 2:00 am on August 2. A man allegedly wearing the blue helmet and vest of the UN peacekeeping forces took her outside and raped her behind a truck," a statement said.

 

"When I cried, he slapped me hard and put his hand over my mouth," she told Amnesty.

The search followed earlier deadly clashes in the area.

UN peacekeeping forces returned there the following day. Witnesses told Amnesty they were not under any threat but began shooting indiscriminately.

 

Amnesty said the soldiers killed Balla Hadji, 61, and his 16-year-old son Souleimane. Balla was apparently shot in the back, while his son was shot in the chest.

 

A neighbour who witnessed the killings said the soldiers appeared to "shoot at anything that moved."

Hadji's family said the UN troops did not help them to transport the wounded man and boy to hospital. Rather than provide assistance, witnesses said, the peacekeepers fired another round when the daughter tried to cross the street to reach her injured relatives.

 

The UN mission in the poor restive country has been under a cloud after claims that it dragged its feet following allegations that more than a dozen French soldiers dispatched to restore order after a 2013 coup sexually abused children in exchange for food.

 

Source: AFP

Bomb blast in Northeastern Nigeria kills 47, leaves dozens wounded

A bomb blast at a market in northeastern Nigeria has killed at least 47 people and wounded dozens others on Tuesday.

The bomb blast was recorded  at around 1:15 p.m. local time in the mobile phone section of the market, located in the village of Sabon Gari in the state of Borno. The bomb was hidden in a knapsack used for dispersing pesticides, which the perpetrator then abandoned, leaving it to detonate during peak trading hours.

A source at a hospital in the town of Biu told a local newspaper that 41 people had been admitted for injuries, and that many of those who had died were “mostly burnt or battered beyond recognition.”

Though no individual or group has claimed responsibility for the attack, witnesses noted that it resembled the work of Boko Haram, the Islamist extremist group that frequently targets crowded public venues in Nigeria and nearby countries. The group, which has killed over 15,000 people since 2009, has ramped up its attacks since the inauguration of President Muhammadu Buhari in late May of this year.

On Tuesday, President Idriss Deby of Chad said publicly that an ongoing multilateral military operation in western Africa had succeeded in “decapitating” Boko Haram, and that the group’s new leadership sought negotiations with the Nigerian government.

Cameroon soldiers kill 10 Boko Haram fighters, arrests several others

A troop Commander reported that Cameroonian forces killed 10 Boko Haram members who launched an attack on a town bordering Nigeria.

The commander stated that hundreds of fighters entered the border town of Ashigashia in Cameroon on Tuesday and started shooting into the air. The commander stated that the insurgent group retreated when Cameroonian reinforcements arrived the scene.

According to the Commander, 10 Boko Haram members were killed while 2 soldiers were severely wounded. He also reported that some arrests were made but no civilian causalities occurred.

In 2014, it was reported that the Boko Haram captured and inhabited Ashigashia for three weeks before the Cameroonian forces recaptured the territory. This incident made about 100,000 people flee the territory to neighboring towns.

Source:  The Associated Press

20 year-old sells her son for 70,000 Naira.

A 20year old girl; Chinwendu Agbo was arrested in Enugu state by the police for allegedly selling her baby for the sum of N70,000. Chinwendu Agbo, an indigene of Eha-Alumonah, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Nigeria, sold the baby to a woman, named Ngozi Eze, a resident in Enugu. It was gathered that the suspect, who resides at Obollo-Afor Lodge, in Udenu Council Area of the State, gave birth to the baby on August 6. The spokesman of the police in Enugu State, DSP Ebere Amaraizu, who confirmed the arrest in a statement said,

"the Command has commenced investigations into the incident of child trafficking at Obolo-Afor in Udenu Local Government area of the state. The suspect, Chinwendu Agbo of Ehalumona, residing at Obollo-Afor Lodge and about twenty years of age, sold her new-born baby boy, for the sum of N70,000, (seventy thousand naira) to a woman at Umabor Ehalumona,  living in Enugu.” DSP Ebere also added that  a full scale investigation has commenced.