A 28-year-old man, Ditebogo Frans Gololo, has been arrested and remanded for impregnating a 13-year-old girl in Polokwane, Limpopo province, South Africa.

Gololo appeared in Seshego Magistrates’ Court on Monday, December 30, 2024, facing charges of statuary r@pe and s3xual grooming of a minor.

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) in a statement said Gololo impregnated the minor in Seshego township.

According to reports, the victim and the suspect met at a shopping complex in Seshego in January 2024 and began communicating until they became intimate in May 2024.

The minor only revealed the incident to her aunt after experiencing complications, and later in November 2024, medical tests confirmed she was eight months pregnant, thus ultimately giving birth to a baby boy on Christmas Day, 25 December 2024.

The police were informed about the incident and the suspect was swiftly arrested by Seshego Family Violence, Child Protection and Sexual Offences Unit on Thursday, 26 December 2024.

The docket will be forwarded to the Director of Public Prosecutions for directives.

The matter was postponed for bail application and further investigations to 08 January 2025, at Seshego Magistrate’s Court.

Gololo was remanded in custody.

Nasarawa State High Court in Akwanga has sentenced Gambo Adamu to death by hanging for the murder of Hassan Ahmed.

Presiding over the case, Justice Mustapha Ramat found Adamu guilty of causing Ahmed’s death by harvesting his organs, describing the act as barbaric and inhumane.

The judgement was delivered on Tuesday in Akwanga.

Nasarawa State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Dr Labaran Shuaibu Magaji, hailed the ruling as a “victory for the people of Nasarawa State” and a stern warning to deter future criminal activities.

“The heinous crime committed by the convict earned him this sentence,” Magaji stated, reiterating the state’s commitment to justice and its zero tolerance for such acts.

The Nigerian military has revealed that in 2024, 10,000 terrorists were neutralised while over 12,000 terrorists were arrested.

This was stated by the Director of Defence Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, in a press conference on Tuesday.

“Many of the things we have seen in the 2024 outgoing year shows how much successes we will record in 2025. By that, I mean that for instance, in 2024, we killed over 10,000 terrorists and arrested 12,000 others, which signals successes that would be recorded in the year 2025,” he stated during the press conference.

The military said it also made many arrests in Southeastern Nigeria.

“We made arrests from the Indigenous People of Biafra and the Eastern Security Network members,” he said.

“Overall, the troops neutralised 734 terrorists, arrested 974 of them. Additionally, troops recovered 167 AK-47 rifles, 259 pump actions and over 7,000 rounds of live ammunition.”

He also stated that the military was committed to ending insecurity in the country while emphasising that it was keen on building on its gains in the fight against terrorism in 2024.

Earlier, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) disclosed that 614,937 Nigerians were killed, and 2,235,954 others abducted across the country between May 2023 and April 2024.

The alarming revelation is contained in the NBS report titled “The Crime Experienced and Security Perception Survey (CESPS) 2024”, based on surveys conducted within the review period.

The report further disclosed that an estimated N2.2trillion was paid as ransom for the kidnappings, with an average of N2.7million demanded per incident.

Breaking down the data, rural areas witnessed a higher murder rate of 335,827 cases, compared to 279,110 in urban areas.

However, experts suggest that poor villagers bore the brunt of these crimes, despite high-profile abductions making headlines.

Regionally, the North West recorded the highest number of murder cases (206,030), followed by the North East (188,992), while the South West had the least (15,693).