An Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court on Friday remanded a 35-year-old man, Garuba Emmanuel, at a Kirikiri Correctional Centre for allegedly defiling his six-year-old daughter.
The defendant, a caterer, who resides at 22, Omowumi Amoche St., Meiran, Lagos, is standing trial for defilement.
His plea was not taken when the charge was read to him.
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Omolara Kushanu, ordered his remand at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre and adjourned the case until April 2 for the Director of Public Prosecution’s legal advice.
Earlier, the prosecutor, ASP Adegoke Ademigbuji, told the court that the defendant committed the offence sometime in May 2025 at his residence.
The prosecutor alleged that the defendant fingered his six-year-old daughter’s private part whenever she came to his house for holidays.
He said the girl reported the incident to her mother after the holiday.
According to him, the girl complained of pain in her private part and, upon being questioned by her mother, said it was her father who touched her.
The offence, according to the prosecutor, contravened Section 137 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State, 2015.
[20/02, 1:24 pm] Chuks Akuna: NAFDAC seals 18 warehouses over expired food products in Niger
The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) said it sealed 18 warehouses in Bida, Niger State, following the discovery of large quantities of expired food and beverage products.
A statement by the agency’s Resident Media Consultant, Mr Olusayo Akintola, said that the warehouses were located around Ndazabo White House along Minna Road, behind Bida Modern Market in Niger state.
Akintola said that the warehouses were shut after NAFDAC’s Investigation and Enforcement team acted on credible intelligence.
He said that the items recovered during the raid included expired non-alcoholic beverages, dairy milk, candies, bottled water and pasta valued at N100 million.
He said that some of those items were already packaged for distribution, including 80,000 packets of expired non-alcoholic drinks, 5,000 packets of dairy milk, 16,000 packets of bottled water, 28 cartons of pasta and other assorted expired products.
The statement noted that other assorted expired products were uncovered during the operation, and that the managers of the affected warehouses were arrested for interrogation.
He said that preliminary findings linked the facilities to a company identified as BY Ventures, which prompted NAFDAC officials to extend their operation to supermarkets owned by the same company in Minna.
Akintola said that additional expired products and counterfeit Goya oil were allegedly found, and that the supermarkets involved in the sales were equally sealed.
He said that the Managing Director of the company, Alhaji Yusuf Nadabo, was invited for further questioning, and he admitted ownership of the expired products during interrogation.
Akintola, however, stated that NAFDAC investigation was still ongoing and that appropriate regulatory sanctions would be imposed at the conclusion of the exercise to serve as a deterrent to others.
