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Victim A suspected rapist who was allegedly refused sex by a grade six pupil of Young Tajudeen Middle School, Ede, Osun State (name withheld) attacked his victim and inflicted injuries on her. The assailant, who some claimed was a ritual killer, inflicted machete cuts on the 15-year-old girl’s head, legs and wrist. Our correspondent gathered that the pupil was living with her grandmother in Ede, Osun State, while her mother  lived in Lagos State. She was said to have gone inside a bush in the town to pick some mangoes last Wednesday when the man allegedly accosted her and wanted to rape her. The victim said that she was going home with the mangoes when the man appeared and asked her for some mangoes. She said that she gave the man some and he later demanded sex, which she said she turned down. She stated further that the man grabbed her head and forced a pill into her mouth and after this, she became unconscious. Asked if the man raped her, she said that she did n...

Like a scene from a horror movie, residents of Abule Egba, a suburb of Lagos State, grabbed an elderly woman suspected of kidnapping two children and descended on her on Tuesday. The angry mob, mostly male youths, hit the woman with sticks, stones and other weapons and tortured her for over 30 minutes. In a video clip made available to PUNCH Metro , the woman pleaded with the mob and begged for her life. She was, however, stripped naked and kicked into a nearby gutter. PUNCH Metro learnt that the mob picked her from the gutter, laid her on the road, put a tyre round her neck, got a keg of petrol and set her ablaze. It was learnt that when policemen from the Oke-Odo Police Division arrived at the scene, it was too late as the unidentified woman was already dead. Our correspondent learnt that as the police attempted to put out the flames, the youths pounced on them and a free-for-all ensued. The policemen were said to have fired teargas and bullets before the youths fled. ...

The Head, Chibok Community in Abuja, Mr. Hosaih Sambido, on Tuesday said some parents of the abducted girls had embarked on hunger strike to protest against the incident. Sambido said this when a former Minister of Education, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, led a protest to the Defence Headquarters to demand the urgent release of the girls. Sambido, who broke into tears while pleading for help from the military, said the development had instilled fear among female students in the area. He said some parents had refused to eat as a result of the development. Sambido said, “Since April 14 we have entered this trauma which is no more news in the whole world that insurgents came and set part of our village ablaze and cart away 276 girls. Though 53 of the girls escaped on their own effort but up till now we don’t know where the rest girls are and the situation they face. “Their parents cannot do anything. Some have refused to eat. Some of the men mobilised themselves and went to the forest t...

In a swift response to the case of a School Bus, Toyota Hiace with registration number XG 246 GWA, belonging to The Vine International Academy, Nyanya, Phase IV, on the outskirts of Abuja, which was reportedly snatched at gunpoint about 7.45am yesterday, Tuesday, 6th May, 2014, Police Operatives attached to Nasarawa Police Command, following a massive hunt, have intercepted and recovered the bus. The vehicle was recovered along Lafia Road in Nasarwa State.  The Operatives also arrested two of the suspects connected with the robbery incident, namely: Victor Essien male, aged 40yrs and Ubong Bassey male, aged 49yrs.  Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police, IGP MD Abubakar, CFR, NPM, mni, psc, while commending his men for a job well done, has reassured Nigerians of the enhanced state of security in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environs, adding that the Nigeria Police are committed to the task of providing the citizens and participants at the World Economic...

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Monica Lewinsky is opening up about her affair with former President Bill Clinton for the first time in years, sharing how the Internet has driven her and others to "global humiliation." Lewinsky, who  penned an essay for Vanity Fair  that will be available digitally on May 8 and on newsstands May 13, said she finally came forward about her experience because of  Tyler Clementi , an 18-year-old who committed suicide after video of him kissing another man was broadcast online. “[T]hanks to the Drudge Report, I was also possibly the first person whose global humiliation was driven by the Internet," Lewinsky said. Lewinsky said she and her mother were both disturbed by the circumstances surrounding Clementi's death. “She was reliving 1998, when she wouldn’t let me out of her sight. She was replaying those weeks when she stayed by my bed, night after night, because I, too, was suicidal," Lewinsky said of her mother. "The shame, the scorn, and the fear th...

An Indonesian widow who was gang-raped by eight 'vigilantes' as punishment for having an affair with a married man, is now to suffer the further indignity of being caned in public. The rapists caught the couple together when they barged into her house in the northern Indonesian province of Banda Aceh and accused her of having 'improper sexual relations' with the 40-year-old man. The 25-year-old woman's companion was tied up and beaten, while she was raped repeatedly. Then the two of them were doused with buckets of sewage It was only after the terrified woman was dragged to a police station by her attackers and reported for breaking strict Sharia laws against extra-marital sex then it was learned she had been raped. Three of the vigilantes were immediately detained and charged with rape as their companions fled - but that did not prevent police deciding to punish the woman with a caning for breaking religious laws. 'The woman and the man will both...