Humanity Watch

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons(NAPTIP),on Tuesday arraigned a 32 -year-old pregnant woman, Precious Okwara, in an FCT High Court, Apo, for  allegedly inflicting physical injuries on a 12 -year-old  girl. Okwara of No.3 Wase St. Kubwa, Abuja, is standing trial on a count charge of willful infliction of physical injuries on her 12-year -old maid. File photo The prosecutor, Mr Aonduna  Orti, told the court that the defendant committed the offence at No. 3 Wase St. Kubwa, Abuja. He said that the defendant inflicted knife cuts on the back of the girl and on one of her hand. Orti said that the girl was taken to the NAPTIP shelter, where she was treated. The offence contravened Section 2 (1) of the Violent Against Persons [Prohibition] Act, 2015, while the defendant denied committing the offence. The defence counsel, Mr  Maduakolam Igwe, urged the court to grant his client  bail as she was pregnant. The judge, Jus...

By Josephine Ella-Ejeh The Osun state Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola  on Monday  evening, escaped a fire incident  which razed down  his office located in the state secretariat, Abeere Osogbo. Although, the Governor was not in the office at the time of the incident,  his deputy, Mrs. Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, was  reported to have been in her office when the fire incident occurred.  Sources told Leadership that smoke was noticed around the Governor’s Office located within the building called White House some minutes to 5pm.  According to an eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, some security men  had observed that bulbs in the adjoining offices to that of the governor were switching off and on intermittently and made efforts to ascertain the cause. “Since the governor was not around, his office was locked and no one could access it, when it was discovered, we looked through the window blind, that smoke was in the offi...