3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
CASES RAPE AND OTHER SEXUAL OFFENCES IN NIGERIA
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO CASES ON RAPE AND OTHER SEXUAL OFFENCES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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ADEREMI V. THE STATE
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Women and sexual Offences/Rape – Need to prove absence of consent – Effect of failure thereof – Women and Justice Administration – Duty of prosecution to secure conviction for crime charged – Whether material contradictions in evidence of raped woman/prosecutrix is ground to abandon duty |
| AKPAN UDO UKUT AND OTHERS V. THE STATE |
Rape – Evidentiary burden to be discharged to sustain a charge of rape – Effect of failure thereof |
| Children – Sexual Offences – Defilement of 5 year old – Relevant considerations – Attitude of court thereto | |
| EDWIN EZEIGBO V. THE STATE |
Children and Sexual Offences – Rape of Minors (8 and 6 year old girls) – Safety of young persons and neighbourhoods – Relevant considerations – Attitude of court thereto |
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Women and Justice Administration – Young girl supposedly gang-raped – Where victim subsequently recants and claims there was consent – Effect – Whether court can presume victim had been tampered with by assailants |
| HUSSAINI SAMA’ILA v. THE STATE |
Security of children and neighbourhoods – Kidnapping, rape and murder of a 6 years old girl – How treated by court |
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Sexual offences and security of women in business – Rural cottage industries – Woman raped by palm wine supplier while taking delivery in the bush – Failure of police and prosecution to prove requisite corroboration – Effect thereof |
| KING V BAILEY |
Children and Sexual Offences – Little boys in school– Principal accused of multiple indecent assault on his young charges – Proof – Standard of corroboration required to sustain charge – How treated |
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Young persons and sexual interferences – Alleged rape of a 15 year old girl by a 42 year old family friend who was married to a 17 year old – Allegation of fondling and intercourse against her will which were not reported to her parents – Subsequent pregnancy and child – Claim for expenses and loss of service consequent on the birth – Attitude of court to the uncorroborated evidence of a teenager pertaining to rape |
| ODUNSI V THE STATE |
Women, Rape and Justice Administration – Rape of a young girl – Where case bungled by Police investigation and prosecuting counsel – Implication for justice administration |
| Rape – Conviction quashed and accused acquitted due to the combined errors of the prosecution and trial judge – Attitude of appellate court thereto | |
| OMORUYI V. THE STATE |
Women – Murder of pregnant woman by relative lover – Whether belief that incest with woman was cause of the lover’s wife’s childlessness amounts to provocation at law |
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