This is contained in a statement issued by SP Suleiman Nguroje, the Command’s Spokesperson, in Yola on Tuesday.
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The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority ordered television channels and newspapers to cease from doing follow-up reporting after police said “reckless” coverage might damage the evidence.
Olugbenga Adeyanju, State Commissioner of Police, paraded the suspects on Wednesday in Yola.
Sulaiman Nguroje, its Public Relations Officer, who announced the arrest in a statement in Yola, said the five suspects, including the 78-year-old Muhammed Ali, were among nine others dislodged by the Police at Gerio village on the outskirts of Yola on June 13, 2020.
The Commissioner of Police in the state, Amba Asuquo, said on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti that the suspect in company with an accomplice committed the crime on December 9.
The students are facing trial at an Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court for allegedly raping a 17-year-old student of UNILAG.
Three Senior Secondary School 1 students (names withheld), who allegedly gang-defiled their 15-year-old classmate, were on Wednesday remanded in a juvenile home.
The teenage girl was burnt alive inside her home in the Chatra district on Friday, allegedly by men who had raped her a night before.
The command’s spokesman, Superintendent of Police Ebere Amaraizu, announced this in Enugu on Monday in a statement.
The Prosecutor, Cousin Adams, told the court that the offences were committed on March 27 between 4pm and 10pm
“We have been struggling for the last four years to get justice for Nirbhaya, but the accused have not been punished yet,’’ her mother, Asha Devi, told newsmen at the memorial
The accused – Samuel Omodele, 21; Olabanjo Balogun, 21; and Divine Francis, 20 – who are students of the Nigeria Institute of Oceanography and Marine Research, Ajah, Lagos, are facing charges of conspiracy and rape
Although, the convict in his defence on Tuesday denied the three count charge of conspiracy to commit rape, rape and demanding with menace, but Justice Nduka Obi averred that the prosecution was able to establish the essential ingredients of the offence against the accused
They said she had been in a relationship with a man from a different religion
Having cited several authorities, the trial judge Justice O. Tobi, averred that the confessional statements of the accused, which was admitted in evidence during trial, passed the veracity test and was not in doubt