3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
CASES CONNECTED TO PHYSICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECURITY OF NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN – 3
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVES
INDEX TO CASES CONNECTED TO PHYSICAL AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC SECURITY OF NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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Children and Security/Healthcare/ Justice Administration – Child Murder – Herbalist who poisoned a 4 year old who refused to run his errand and also refused to administer an antidote despite the plea of boy’s parents – How treated |
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Children and Education/Justice Administration/Security – 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 |
| KIRKHAM V. BOUGHEY |
Women and Healthcare/Justice Administration/Security – Highway Accidents and effect on wellbeing of families, marriages and children – Motor Accident caused by Defendant’s negligence – Injuries occasioned to husband and wife therefrom – Where wife more severely injured than husband – Husband giving up better paying employment to care for wife and children – Whether husband is entitled to recover lost income against defendant |
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Women and Security/Law Enforcement – Woman stabbed to death in home – Poor Police investigation/handling leading to discharge of accused person |
| LAMBERT AND ANOTHER V LEWIS AND OTHERS |
Women/Young persons and Security of Highways – Fatal Accidents – Mother and daughter who lost father/husband and son/brother due to the uncoupling of a lorry hitched to a tow-truck – Women/Young People and Justice Administration – Fatal accident and injury to survivors – Defective trailer coupling as cause of accident which injured woman and her daughter while killing the husband/father and son/brother– Determination of liability – How treated |
| Armed Robbery – Security of homes, properties and lives – Effect on wellbeing of women and children – Attitude of courts to armed robbery | |
| LEITH McDONALD RATTEN V. THE QUEEN |
Women and Security of Life – 8 month pregnant wife and mother of three children shot dead in her kitchen by husband – Justice administration – Voice identification by Emergency Services Operators – Whether ‘female’ voice can be identified over the phone – Admissibility considerations in criminal proceedings – How treated |
| Security of children – Brutal murder of young girl accused of witchcraft by allegedly causing her mother’s death via snake bite | |
| MAIKUDI ALIYU V THE STATE |
Women/Children as victims of crime – Security of family lives – Sentencing after conviction for murder – Convicted person as a family man and sole breadwinner of the family – Whether compelling considerations during sentencing proceedings for murder attracting capital punishment |
| Women in Public Service – Sensitive assignments – NAFDAC Director-General – Security of life from assassination – How treated | |
| MATTHEW ONAKPOYA V THE QUEEN |
Girl-child and Security of Neighbourhood – Murder of a young girl by father’s recently discharged debtor – Security of rural families – How treated |
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MOELLER V MONIER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY (NIGERIA) LTD
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Children and Family life – Family Neighbourhood – Protection of children from immoral exposures – Set of Flats maintained by a company – Man who brings prostitutes into flats/neighbourhood designated for family living – Whether brings disrepute to the neighbourhood – Whether same can be ground for dismissal from employment – How treated |
| MR. SUNDAY ADEGBITE TAIWO V. SERAH ADEGBORO & ORS |
Housing and security of family life – Widowhood and mortgage liabilities of deceased spouse – Locus standi of widow to challenge perceived wrongful auctioning of her family home arising from mortgage liabilities of deceased spouse – Effect of liabilities of deceased spouse or family business on housing security for widows and children |
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Women and Justice Administration – Homicide by throttling the neck– Seizing a person usually a woman by the throat, to quieten or prevent her cries, but without intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm – Circumstances in which same will amount to manslaughter rather than murder – How treated |
| NGWO KALU V THE STATE |
School safety – School hostel broken into and students dragged out, one student killed – How treated |
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Women in business – Women and Justice Administration – Security of highway and neighbourhood – Business woman brutally strangulated to death and robbed by co-passengers of money and valuables – How treated by prosecution and trial judge – Effect |
| NWIGBOKE V THE QUEEN |
Women and Murder – Cult-group led killings – deceased accused inter alia of sleeping with wife of chief of a cult group who ordered his killing – Attitude of court thereof |
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Children/Women and Security – Arson on a family home – Home set on fire with husband, wife and family members inside due to refusal of father to submit to unlawful demands of arsonists – Attitude of courts thereto |
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Children and Security of family Life – Murder – Cult-group killing – Trauma of family members watching helplessly the unlawful abduction of their father/spouse/breadwinner who was subsequently brutally murdered – Failure of proactive Law Enforcement – Attitude of court thereto |
| NWOSISI V. THE STATE |
Women and Security – Wife of person living with disabilities – Protection from assaults and unwanted advances of third party – Implication for justice administration |
| Security – Accused murdered breadwinner and left his two wives widowed | |
| OBAJI V THE QUEEN |
Widowhood – Women and Justice Administration/Security – Wife whose husband was killed by cult group so that she can be ‘given’ to a member of the cult – Criminal assault on individuals, families and communities – Failure of proactive law enforcement – Effect – Attitude of Court thereto |
| Security of life, property and highway – Women as direct and indirect victims – Relevant considerations | |
| OBODO V THE QUEEN |
Women and Security- Murder of wife of dreaded secret society Chief – Killing committed directly by the chief after his underlings refused to obey his directives to kill the wife in deference to him – Deceased accused of poisoning her step-child to death – Failure of proactive law enforcement – Attitude of court generally |
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Young people – Security and Human Rights – Healthcare – Child Murder – Grievous assault leading to death of a 13 year old – Access to timely and quality healthcare – Evidence of an eye-witness who is a legal minor – Treatment by court |
| OFIM V THE QUEEN |
Women and Law Enforcement – Cult-related lynching – Silent but key roles played by wives of cult members – Security of community and neighbourhood – Need for effective law enforcement in communities |
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Women and Security/Justice Administration – Murder – Failure of law enforcement – Widowhood – Heroic wife who grappled with a knife wielding assailant of her husband with wrapper and bare hands – Police failure to act – Standers-by inspired to apprehend assailant – How treated by court |
| OGHARU V THE QUEEN |
Children and Security/Justice Administration – Child trafficking – Lynching of person who kidnapped and sold a child – Prosecution of young persons who carried out lynching as ordered by community’s council of elders for murder – How treated – Attitude of court to private citizens taking the law into their hands to punish child trafficking |
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