Rapists on rampage: Shocking stories of how minors have become endangered (2)

If recent reports are anything to go by, these are indeed strange times, especially in a country where there is an upsurge in girl-children being abused and robbed of their innocence by randy men who have become specialists in taking advantage of them and traumatising them in the process.

Last week, Vanguard Features, VF, began a report of the pathetic stories of several minors in Plateau State who were raped and left with emotional wrecks by some unrepentant rapists. The stories are as shocking as they are confounding as the reader is left wondering the kind of base instinct that could move a full grown man to have forceful carnal knowledge of a child as young as four or three years. But while the focus of last week’s report was Plateau State, it has since emerged that rape of minors or under-aged girls is actually on the increase across Nigeria, even approaching alarming proportion.

 

 

The team bus of Nigerian Premier League side Ikorodu United was involved in an accident with a trailer on Friday, en route Makurdi for a weekend fixture against Lobi Stars. The accident happened along AMA Brewery Road 9th mile in Enugu. A team official and seven players were treated in hospital for minor injuries, with 11 players and six officials of the Lagos-based side escaping unhurt after jumping out of the bus windows.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/escaped-death-ikorodu-utd-official/