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  • Teacher in jail for assaulting 4-year-old pupil

    An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court yesterday remanded a 29-year-old female teacher, Adejuyigbe Moni, who allegedly sexually assaulted her four-year-old pupil by inserting her fingers in her vaginal.

    The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olufunke Sule-Amzat, ordered that the defendant should be kept in Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos pending the receipt of legal advice  from the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the defendant, a resident of Ayoronwi Street in Igando a suburb of Lagos, is standing trial for sexual assault.

    She, however, pleaded not guilty.

    The Prosecutor, Mr Benson Emuerhi, had told the court that the defendant committed the offence on Jan. 13, at the premises of Covenant Tekno Kids Discovery Centre located on 14, Akeem-Oke Street, Igando, Lagos.

    He said that the case, which was transferred from Igando Division, was reported at the Gender Section of Lagos State Police Command, Ikeja, by the victim’s father on her behalf.

    According to Emuerhi, the child complained to her parents about the pains she was feeling in her “bum- bum.’’

    “She said that the class teacher (defendant) had inserted her fingers inside her vagina causing her pain.

    “ The parents reported the incident to the survivor’s school authority and the defendant was confronted.

    “But she denied, hence the resort to the police station,” he said.

    He said child sexual assault contravenes Section 261 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015, which could attract seven years imprisonment.

    The case was adjourned till April 11 for mention.

  • Man in court for ‘assaulting’ police officer

    A 39-year-old sheriff of the Lagos State High Court, Usman Osakwe, was yesterday arraigned before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

    Prosecutor Peter Nwangwu alleged that Osakwe assaulted the police officer, Insp. Bolarinde Muyide, by pushing him.

    He said Osakwe committed the offence on December 17 at 10am, at 6, Oladele Street, Ifako-Ijaiye, Lagos.

    Osakwe is facing a three-count charge bordering on assault occasioning harm and breach of the peace before Chief Magistrate Mrs. Y.O Aje-Afunwa.

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    Nwangwu alleged that the defendant pushed Insp. Muyide roughly against the wall, thereby causing him grievous harm on his left hand.

    He said the complainant, attached to Area ‘G’ Police Command headquarters, Ogba, Lagos, was assaulted by the accused while performing his duties.

    Osakwe pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Aje-Afunwa granted the defendant bail in the sum of N100,000 with one surety in the  like sum.

    She said the surety must be employed and show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    Aje-Afunwa adjourned till February 14.

  • Two arraigned for ‘assaulting’ IKEDC official

    Two men, Saliu Mohammed and Hassan Bello, yesterday appeared in an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court, Lagos for allegedly assaulting an official of the Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company (IKEDC) with planks.

    Mohammed, 48 and Bello, 33, residents of Ojodu, Lagos are standing trial on a two-count charge of conspiracy and assault.

    Prosecutor ASP Clifford Ogu said the defendants committed the offences on September 17 at their home.

    He said they conspired to assault Mr. Jimoh Joshua while he was performing his duty.

    “The accused used planks to injure the complainant,” Ogu said.

    He said the complainant disconnected the defendants’ power supply for indebtedness, but he got assaulted.

    “The accused threw stones at the complainant, who was on top of an electric pole, for disconnecting their house.

    “When the complainant descended from the ladder, they attacked him by beating him up and using planks to hit him, which caused him harm.

    “The case was reported and the accused were arrested,” the prosecutor said.

    The offences contravene sections 173 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    Following their pleading “not guilty”, Magistrate Mrs. J. A. Adegun released the accused on bail in the sum of N50, 000 each with one surety each in the like sum.

    She said the sureties must be employed and show evidence of two years’ tax payment to the Lagos State government.

    Adegun fixed hearing for October 16.

  • Dad, son, arraigned for ‘assaulting’ IE official

    A 50-year-old man, Samuel Abilagbo and his 20-year-old son, Moses, were yesterday arraigned at an Ikorodu Magistrates’ Court for allegedly assaulting an official of Ikeja Electric.

    The duo, who live at 2, Mount Sinai Street, Agbede, Ikorodu, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge of breach of the peace and assault brought against them.

    Prosecuting Sergeant Mary Ajiteru told the court that the accused battered the official, Mr Ogbeke Harrison, while trying to disconnect the power supply to their house.

    “While the complainant wanted to disconnect electricity supply to their house, he was brutalised with stones and stick which left him with a permanent scar on his head.”

    The offence contravened Sections 168 (d) and 172 (d) of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015 (Revised).

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the sections stipulate three months and one year jail terms.

    Magistrate W. B. Balogun granted them N100, 000 bail with two sureties each in the like. The surties, he said, must be workers in reputable organisations.

    The sureties must also show evidence of tax payment to the Lagos State Government.

    Balogun adjourned the case till July 12.

  • 15 charged with assaulting sanitation officials

    15 charged with assaulting sanitation officials

    SOME  officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps were yesterday robbed around Mccarthy, Banjo and Araromi streets in Oshodi  during  routine inspection.

    Law Enforcement Assistants Muyiwa Olashilola and  Haastrup Ifeoluwa, who were on a rescue mission after receiving a distress call from their colleagues were allegedly attacked with bottles, stones, knives and sticks on arrival.

    Their attackers reportedly  prevented them from arresting some roadside traders.

    The hoodlums pounced on the officials as they tried to  record the scene and dismantle the illegal trading points.

    The sanitation men’s  patrol van was also damaged.

    Fifteen suspects including seven men and eight women were arrested and charged at the Special Offences Mobile Court at Safety Arena,  Oshodi.

    Olashilola said it was the fifth time he was attacked by suspects.

    “A distress call came in that some of our colleagues were being attacked. On getting there, the hoodlums confronted us, boasting that there was not nothing we could do. They held bottles, stones and other harmful things. The scene became tense that we had to recede. During the process, some of them hit me in the face,” he said.

    Ifeoluwa, who had his ear severed three years ago, said: “We were trying to arrest some of the hoodlums but they gathered and started throwing stones, sticks and all manners of objects at us. They pushed me down, dipped hands into my pocket and stole my phone and a purse containing my Automated Teller Machine (ATM) card and some money. I sustained a fracture from the attack.”

    LAGESC Executive Secretary Mrs. Idowu Mohammed appealed to the public to refrain from attacking government officials.

    At the LAGESC headquarters, the traders accused the officers of always  extorting money from them . They said the officers were infuriated because they were not given money.

  • Son gets bail for assaulting father

    A Surulere Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos State yesterday granted N200,000 bail to a man, Ikenna Odawulu, who allegedly assaulted his 77-year-old father.

    The Magistrate, Mr. Aro Lambo, also granted the accused two sureties as part of his bail conditions.

    He ordered that one of the sureties must be a civil servant of not less than Grade Level 14 and the other a cleric or a community leader.

    Lambo said the sureties must provide evidence of tax payments to the Lagos State government, and their residential addresses verified by the prosecutor.

    Ikenna, 26, who lives at 5, Nurudeen Street, Orile Iganmu, a suburb of Lagos, pleaded not guilty to a two-count charge of assault and threat.

    The prosecutor, Anthonia Osayande, told the court that the accused allegedly committed the offences at 5, Nurudeen Street, Orile Iganmu, at 7 am., on September 5.

    She alleged that the accused unlawfully punched his father, Godwin Odawulu, in the face and all over his body during a misunderstanding.

    Osayande said the offence contravened sections 172 and 56 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.

    The court adjourned the case till October 12 for mention.

  • Man charged with assaulting LASTMA official

    Man charged with assaulting LASTMA official

    A man, Benjamin Archibong, has been charged to court with wounding a Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) official, Olumide Omomoyesan.

    The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit (Task Force) arrested Archibong last Tuesday in Lekki-Ajah.

    A statement by the task force Public Relations Officer, Taofiq Adebayo, said the suspect obstructed a LASTMA team from impounding a commercial Volkswagen bus marked FKJ 688 XV. The driver was said to have resisted arrest for picking and dropping passengers at an unauthorised place around Lekki-Ajah area.

    Archibong, 20, was charged with assault, obstruction and conduct likely to cause breach of peace before Magistrate Adepeju Odusanya in Ogba, Lagos last Thursday.

    Prosecuting counsel Adedoyin Odukoya said Archibong pleaded

    “not guilty” and was granted N100,000 bail with two sureties in the like sum. The sureties must be residents of Lagos State.

    The matter was adjourned till February 28.

    Task Force Chairman Olayinka Egbeyemi, a Superintendent of Police (SP), said Archibong’s arrest would deter others from obstructing security or government officials from discharging their duties.

    The agency, he said, has started enforcing Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s directive to arrest council officials who undertake traffic duties.

  • Two brothers arraigned for ‘assaulting’ policeman

    Two brothers, Darlington Ani and Daniel Ani, were on Friday arraigned for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

    Darlington, 28 and Daniel 21, are facing a-six-count charge bordering on assault and breach of peace before an Apapa Magistrates’ Court in Lagos.

    Prosecuting Inspector Tony Elibeh, said the accused committed the offences between April 21 and April 29, in Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos.

    He said the accused assaulted a police officer by obstructing and resisting arrest and, thereby, perverting the course of justice.

    “`The accused men, on the said date, did conspire to commit felony, to wit, assault and occasioning harm on one Mr Jude Nweka, thereby inflicting injuries on his head and face.

    “The brothers did incite acts of violence, intimidate and cause a breach of the peace to the environment,” he said.

    He said when the case was reported to the police, the brothers refused to allow the security men carry out their duty but assaulted them instead.

    The accused pleaded not guilty.

    Chief Magistrate Titus Abolarinwa granted them N100,000 bail with one surety in the like sum.

    He directed that one of the sureties must be a blood relation of the accused.

    He added that they must present evidence of payment of two years’ tax to the Lagos State Government.

    He stressed that the sureties, whose addresses must be verified by the prosecution, must also present evidence of evidence of means to the court’s registrar.

    Abolarinwa, then, adjourned the case to May 18.

  • Govt removes principal, deputy, four teachers for ‘assaulting’ pupil

    Govt removes principal, deputy, four teachers for ‘assaulting’ pupil

    FOR alleged inhuman treatment of a Junior Secondary Two (JS II) pupil, Principal of Eva Adelaja Girls Secondary School in Bariga, Lagos, Mrs C. O. Coker, Vice-Principal, Mrs Balogun and four teachers were yesterday removed by the government.

    The teachers are Mr Bello (Mathematics), Mrs Tejumaye (English language), Mrs Omoge (Physic Education) and Mr Bakare (Economics).

    Their removal followed the investigation into the flogging of the pupil, Ogechi Anyalewechi, on March 16 by the teachers on the principal’s instruction.

    Lagos State Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Mrs Olabisi Ariyo said they were removed because of their complicity in the “assault saga”, adding: They will no longer work in the school from Thursday, March 24 (today)”.

    Ogechi was flogged on her bare buttocks following an altercation with the school’s Head Girl.

    The 14-year-old pupil got into trouble after slapping back the Head Girl, who reported her to the school.

    Besides being caned, Ogechi was made to cut grass for over four hours.

    Ogechi suffered body wounds and was taken to Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja.

    When the incident became public, Commissioner for Youth and Social Development Princess Uzamat Akinbile-Yussuf directed the Directorate of School Social Services of her ministry to probe it.

    A fact-finding team led by a director, which visited the school, on Tuesday, indicted the principal and the teachers.

    Yesterday, Oghechi, her parents, the headgirl, the principal and the teachers appeared before a panel chaired by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Mr Hakeem Muri-Okunola. Mrs Ariyo was in attendance.

    The head girl, it was learnt, confessed that she slapped Ogechi and apologised for her action.

    According to Princess Akinbile-Yussuf, “the Director of the School Social Services on my instruction went to the school to carry out on the spot investigation following which all those involved including the principal, the head girl, Ogechi, her parents and Tutor-General of Education District 2, were on Wednesday March 23 (yesterday), invited before a panel chaired by Muri-Okunola and his education ministry counterpart, Mrs Ariyo was also there.

    “The head girl confessed that she slapped Ogechi first and apologised to her for her improper behaviour. It was also confirmed that the principal subsequently instructed some teachers to give Ogechi about 12 strokes of the cane on her backside. The principal and teachers have since been removed and will now report at the Education District 2, while the assault victim and the erring head girl were appropriately counselled by the School Social Services Directorate on the proper way to conduct themselves in school.”

    She added: “We have also instructed that the victim (Ogechi) should not be harassed or molested as she returns to the school to continue her studies and her parents were happy at the outcome of the intervention.

    “However, the ministry shall henceforth step up the school social services to educate both students and teachers on the best conduct in school environment across all public schools in Lagos State.”

  • Okada rider docked for ‘assaulting’ colleague`s daughter

    A commercial motorcyclist, Kamaru Manihouri was  arraigned at the Tinubu Magistrate’s Court for assaulting his colleague‘s daughter, Rofia Badmus.

    Manihouri, who resides at Aloba Street, Lagos Island is facing a two-count charge of assault and conducting himself in a manner that could breach public peace.

    The Police Prosecutor, Sergeant Andohemba Koti said the accused person committed the offence on August 1 at the complainant’s residence on Adeniji Adele area of Lagos Island.

    Koti said the complainant had informed the police on the same day that the accused went to her residence, beat her up, and inflicted injuries on her.

    The prosecutor said the accused took the action out of annoyance when he discovered that the complainant could not tell him where her father had gone to when he came looking for him.

    “He came looking for her father and when the complainant said she could not ascertain his whereabouts and asked him to return later, he took that as rudeness, got furious, slapped her and inflicted injuries on her,’’ he said.

    He said that the offence contravened Sections 191 and 166 of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2011.

    The accused pleaded not guilty.

    Magistrate L.A Owolabi granted the accused N40,000 bail with two sureties in like sum and adjourned the case until August 20.