3PLR – CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI
MADAM CHRISTIANA UGU V. ANDREW EBINNI TABI IN THE
CRIME PROSECUTION CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
CHILDREN AND WOMEN LAW & POLICY REPORTS WITH SUPPORT FROM AFRICAN MOTHERHOOD INITIATIVE, AMI
LIST OF CRIME PROSECUTION CASES CONNECTED TO NIGERIAN CHILDREN AND WOMEN
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Women and Justice Administration – Wife-killing – Deceased wife strangled by husband – Whether refusing sex to her husband amounts to provocation in law – Attitude of court thereto |
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ABDALLABE V. BORNU NATIVE AUTHORITY
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Women and Security of homes and neighbourhood – Murder and assault of women – Midnight assailant kills woman and wounds another to effect his escape – Plea of self-defence and licence to enter – How treated by court |
| ABDU KADIRI V. THE QUEEN | Women and Murder – Adultery – Husband who killed lover of adulteress wife – Whether circumstances involved amount to legal provocation – How treated |
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Women and Security/Domestic Violence – Wife-Killing – Domestic disagreement resulting in the killing of wife by husband – Women and Religion – Tragedy arising from unresolved dispute between married couples of different religions – How treated |
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Women in Business – Witchcraft connected cases – Recovery of debt for goods sold on credit – Invocation of juju by alleged creditor on the money before handing same over – Fight and death arising therefrom – How treated |
| ADELODUN V. THE QUEEN |
Women and Politics – Widowhood – Wife of politician – Husband’s grievance over election outcome – Husband killing another regardless of wife’s effort to prevent same– Effect thereof on family life |
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Women and Security of Life and neighborhood – Horrific murder of defenseless woman [head cut off and hidden] – Evidence of another woman who was eye-witness to the murder – Courage of a woman to witness against a family member involved in the commission of capital crime against another woman – Attitude of court thereto |
| AFILAYA V. QUEEN |
Children and Security – Brutal murder of 9 year old boy – 7 matchet blow and body parts mutilated – Out of wedlock pregnancy and disputes arising therefrom – Implications for security, crime and law enforcement |
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Child-Killing – Murder – Three children killed by father with mother wounded – Whether claim that wife told husband the children were not his is sufficient provocation – How treated |
| AJISEFINI V. THE QUEEN |
Women and Security/Justice Administration – Murder – Proof of previous elopement between two persons without more – Whether creates any legal relations – Open-ended sexual relationship between man and woman where man referred to woman as ‘wife’ even though she maintained serial sexual relationship with other men – Dispute over child arising therefrom – Man’s rival claim against that of woman’s current live-in-lover – Whether support of woman for rival claim and verbal abuse amounts to provocation in law |
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Women and Security/Justice Administration – Mob-killing by Burning – Aged mother of village Head locked into a room and house set on fire by mob – Need to show relevant evidence tying accused persons to the crime – Effect of failure thereof |
| AKINOLA OLATUNBOSUN V. THE STATE |
Children and Security/Religion/Crime – Baby-killing for ritual purposes – Security of persons in premises of religious nonprofit/charitable organizations – Effect on family lives – Attitude of court |
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Women and Security – Security of neighbourhood and rural communities – Woman murdered by machete wielding assailants who pursued her brother to their family house – Allegation that appellant/killer was ‘collecting’ human heads for certain purposes – Attitude of court thereto |
| ALERI V. THE QUEEN |
Women and Murder – Killing of a third party for adultery with wife of accused person – Serial seduction of wife and mockery of husband – Catching wife and paramour in adulterous act – Whether constitutes provocation for killing done subsequently with arrow – How considered |
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ALONGE V. ATTORNEY GENERAL WESTERN NIGERIA
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Women and Murder – Killing of a married woman by past lover – Oath-taking as proof of innocence against charge of adultery with married woman – Belief that illness of accused person was caused by oath taken to deny charge of adultery by deceased’s husband – Whether deceased person’s saying to accused “You’ve had it” amounted to provocation – Attitude of Court |
| AMADASUN V. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE WESTERN REGION |
Women in Business/Crime/Justice Administration – A woman involved in a fraudulent scheme with other men to defraud unsuspecting victims – Role/Evidence of other women in bringing perpetrators to justice |
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Women and Security/Crime – Murder – Women in Business – Aged farmer found macheted to death and left in muddy waters – Women and Justice Administration – Poor Police work and prosecutorial abilities in murder trials – Effect – Women and Witchcraft – Aged mother accused of ‘killing’ daughter-in-law by means of witchcraft – How treated |
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Women and Murder in the family – Woman killed by brother-in-law – Whether verbal abuse amounts to provocation – Relevant considerations |
| ASABA V. THE QUEEN |
Women as direct/indirect victims of crime – Women and Housing – Women and Health – Grandmother killed while asleep on a mat beside her daughter and grand-daughter in the same room with killer and his mother – Accused person dealt machete blows on sleeping grandmother for allegedly jeering at his skin condition – Effect of poor/inadequate housing or accommodation arrangements on security and dignity of the lives and wellbeing of women |
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Women and crime – Murder – Women as victim and perpetrator – A woman killing another woman by setting her house on fire while the deceased was sleeping – How considered |
| ASHARARU DAN SAURI BAMAINA V. KANO NATIVE AUTHORITY |
Children and Right to Life – Murder of a 7 year old – Killed for spilling millet flour and putting sand into it on a farm – Whether act of child qualifies as provocation – How treated |
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ASUQUO AKPAN UKPONG V. THE QUEEN
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Children/Widows and Justice Administration – Belief in witchcraft – Wife and children who were eye-witnesses to killing of father/husband – Where accused claims to have been provoked by death of his own son which a herbalist attributed to the deceased – How treated |
| ATAT OF MANGOR V. REGINA |
WIFE KILLING:- Women and Justice Administration – Domestic violence – Wife stabbed to wife by Husband – Plea of drunkenness and provocation – Degree of drunkenness and provocation required to reduce murder to manslaughter – Relevant considerations |
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Women in Business/Crime – Murder of woman due to quarrel arising from payment for kerosene delivered to neighbour/customer – Proof of
Children and justice administration – Evidence of children/young people who were eye-witness to assault and death of mother – Material contradictions therein – How treated by Court |
| ATO V. THE STATE |
Children/Women and Justice Administration/Crime – Children as indirect victims of crime – Women and Polygamy – Women and divorce under customary law – Woman given notice of divorce by husband – Belief that co-wife is responsible for divorce – Fight and stabbing of co-wife occasioning death – Child of deceased present in room when fight ensued – How treated by court |
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Women and Justice Administration – Wife killing – Mother of accused person as star witness – Testimony of Mother of accused who was first at the scene – Tragedy following attendance by threesome at marriage ceremony of relative – Plea of insanity – Treatment by court |
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BAKARI V. REGINA
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Women and Crime/Justice Administration – Wife-Killing – Wife confessing to being in love with another man who was ready to marry her – Whether being greatly provoked is the same thing as ‘sudden provocation’ required under the law to reduce offense of murder to manslaughter Women and Customary law practices – Marriage under customary law – Wife’s desertion – Failure to repay dowry to husband – Whether entitles husband to enforced return of wife – Quarrel arising therefrom leading to murder of wife – How treated |
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Women and Justice administration – Marriage and Crimes of Jealousy – Remarriage – Former husband of woman killed by current husband on suspicion of having sexual designs on wife – Whether jealous rage based on suspicion of deceased’s intention to have carnal relation with wife amounts to provocation to nullify a conviction for premeditated murder |
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BALOGUN V. ALHAJI BUSARI AMUBIKAHUN
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Women and Justice Administration/Human Right/Property Rights – Woman whose arrest, detention, and prosecution was procured by legal practitioner with whom she had a land dispute – Woman procured by a person to frame another woman for diabolical/witchcraft activities – Malicious prosecution action arising therefrom – How treated by court |
| Women and Murder/Prostitution – Killing of a prostitute for jeering and assaulting a sexually impotent man – Whether jeering and assault as described amounted to provocation | |
| BENJAMIN KNOWLES V. THE KING |
Women and substance/drug abuse – Justice administration – Death arising from a moment of mutual drunkenness – Wife-killing via a revolver shot by husband – Dying declaration of wife designed to protect husband and testimony of husband asserting accident – Where upstaged by conflicting circumstantial evidence – Duty of court thereto to consider both murder and manslaughter – Effect of considering murder alone |
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Women and Customary Law/Justice Administration – Killing of prospective bride – Suspicions of infidelity and humiliation– Failure to recover bride price – Expectations between couple who by native law and custom are not yet man and wife as the forms of marriage had not been completed – Whether there is a position under which the law affords a protection to a husband who killed his wife or her paramour in such circumstances |
| BOY IYAREGBA V. QUEEN |
Women and Murder/Justice Administration – Wife-Killing – Family with three children (including a baby) who went to sleep together only for neighbours to find wife murdered in the morning with husband’s axe – How treated |
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