A man, identified as Ismaila Adamu, has been remanded at the Kirikiri Custodial Centre over accusations that he ejaculated on a five-year-old-girl.
Adamu was put behind bars by Justice Abiola Soladoye of Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court, on Wednesday on two charges of indecent treatment of a child and sexual assault.
The offences, according to the prosecuting counsel, Abimbola Abolade, contravened Sections 135 and 263 (1)(2) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State, 2015.
However, he pleaded not guilty.
The accused perpetrated the act on June 25, 2021, on Atan road, Surulere, Lagos, Abolade stated during the trial.
The prosecutor told the court thag the defendant deceived the minor by taking off her clothes and pant to ejaculate on her body.
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Justice Soladoye ordered that the defendant be kept at the Kirikiri Custodial Centre pending the hearing of his bail application.
Soladoye adjourned the case until May 9 for hearing of the bail application.
In another news, Indonesian authorities on Wednesday said they have arrested three Nigerians for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs into the country.
This was made known by the Police spokesperson, Trunoyudo Wisnu Andika, who said the suspects were arrested separately between January and March at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta and several apartments in the capital.
Chief of customs at Soekarno-Hatta, Gatot Sugeng Wibowo, said officers arrested Malachi Onyekachukwu Umanu, a Nigerian who arrived at the airport from Ethiopia on March 5, with no suitcase or bag.
Wibowo said his suspicious behaviour prompted officers to check his body, and an X-ray turned up some 64 capsules inside his stomach. Authorities managed to force all the capsules, which were filled with a total of 1.07 kilograms (2.3 pounds) of crystal methamphetamine, out of his stomach within three days.
Police also arrested two other Nigerian nationals along with an Indonesian man and woman who tried to smuggle 1.04 kilograms (2.2 pounds) of crystal meth from India wrapped in lace fabric through a post office in Jakarta.