A Nigerian man, 55, has been arrested by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on suspicion of drug trafficking shortly after landing at OR Tambo International Airport from São Paulo, Brazil.

SAPS spokesperson, Lieutenant Colonel Amanda Van Wyk, confirmed the arrest in a statement released on Tuesday, stating that authorities discovered the suspect had allegedly swallowed cocaine capsules worth an estimated R7.5 million, IOL SA reports.

“The suspect had just landed from São Paulo, Brazil when he was intercepted by police. A medical X-ray revealed that he had swallowed multiple objects suspected to be capsules containing cocaine,” said Van Wyk.

She further stated that the suspect is still in the process of expelling the ingested capsules.

The suspect is expected to appear in the Kempton Park Magistrates’ Court soon.

Two persons John Moses and Yakubu Mohammed have been sentenced to surgical castration and death by hanging after being convicted for rape and incest in Kaduna.

Another convicted rapist Mustapha Musa was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Commissioner, Ministry of Human Services and Social Development, Hajiya Rabi Salisu disclosed this to journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday.

She said the Ministry secured three convictions of rape charges between June 2024 and February, 2025.

She described the convictions as a good development and hoped it would serve as a deterrent to others. 

According to her:, the ministry secured a conviction on the 7th day of June 2024 before Hon. Justice Nana in KDH/KAD/57c/2023; State Vs. John Moses wherein the Defendant was convicted in a two counts charge of rape and incest under Section 258 1 of the Penal Code Law 2017 as amended and sentenced to death by hanging and surgical castration. 

The ministry secured a conviction on the 6th day of February 2025 before Hon. Justice B. Yusuf in KDH/KAD/69c/2023; State Vs. Yakubu Mohammed, wherein the Defendant was convicted on a 2 counts charge of Rape under Section 258 1 of the Penal Code Law 2017 as amended and sentenced to death by hanging and surgical castration. 

“The ministry again secured another conviction on the 24th day of February 2025 before Hon. Justice Isa Aliyu in KDH/KAD/66c/2021; State Vs. Mustapha Musa, wherein the Defendant was convicted on a 2 counts charge of Rape under Section 258 of the Penal Code Law and sentenced to life imprisonment.” 

She said the cases were handled by M.P. Danjuma Esq. and Halimatu S. Bello Esq.

An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division on Tuesday sentenced two men, Anu Olaniyi and Abidemi Alibaloye, to two years imprisonment each for gang-raping a 13-year-old girl.

The convicts, who committed the offences on December 28, 2020, were arraigned in court on the charges of conspiracy and gang-rape.

During the hearing, the victim told the court, “I was sent on an errand on December 28, 2020, when one of the convicts intercepted me and purposely directed me to his friend’s place where they both forcibly had carnal knowledge of me one after the other.”

The victim, who said she went home teary-eyed and informed her mother of what had happened, said, “I was able to recognise both convicts and they were later arrested and charged to court.”

The Director of Public Prosecutions, Julius Ajibare, who prosecuted the case for the Ekiti State Government, said the offences committed were “contrary to Section 421 of the Criminal Law of Ekiti State, 2021 and Section 2(2)(c) of the Ekiti State Gender-Based Violence (Prohibition) (First Amendment) Law, 2020.”

Ajibare called four witnesses and tendered seven exhibits in support of his case.

But the defendants, who spoke through their counsel, Oluwafemi Alonge, gave evidence in their defence and called no witnesses.

In the judgement, Justice Adekunle Adeleye held that “the prosecution proved the offence of gang-rape and conspiracy against the defendants beyond reasonable doubt.”

The judge consequently convicted the defendants and sentenced each of them to life imprisonment for gang-rape and two years imprisonment for conspiracy.