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October 4, 2024 No Responses

Nurses Protest Doctor’s Alleged Assault Of Female Student Nurse In Ogun

Nurses with Ogun State Hospital, Ijaye, Abeokuta joined by their colleagues mobilised from other parts of the state, defied the rain on Thursday to protest the alleged assault of a final year student nurse by a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Nurudeen...

May 16, 2022 No Responses

Bus Driver Bags Life Imprisonment For Sexually Assaulting Five-Year-Old Pupil

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Monday sentenced a school bus driver, Tony Akpan to life imprisonment for sexually assaulting a five-year-old pupil. Justice Abiola Soladoye in her judgment, held that the prosecution had overwhelming ...

April 6, 2022 No Responses

Man Bags Life Imprisonment For Raping, Robbing Student At UNILAG

An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court on Tuesday sentenced a man, Collins Okechukwu, to life imprisonment for raping and robbing a 25-year-old student (name withheld) at the University of Lagos. Delivering judgement, Justice Abiola Soladoye, ...

September 20, 2021 No Responses

Kaduna Hospital Records 652 Rape Cases

Salama Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Gambo Sawaba General Hospital, Zaria in Kaduna State, recorded 652 rape cases where children below 17 years were the victims between February 2019 and August 2021. Hajiya Amina Ladan, the head of the c...

November 26, 2020 No Responses

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L-R: Commissioner for Health and Human Services, Dr. Banji Finani; Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Alhaja Mariam Ogunlade; Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi; his wife ,Erelu Bisi Fayemi; Attorney- General and Commissioner for Justi...

July 2, 2020 No Responses

Rape: Afe Babalola Recommends Castration

Legal luminary and founder of Afe Babalola University, Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), on Wednesday condemned the rising spate of rape cases, and called on the Federal Government to declare a state of emergency on rape matters. The elder statesman, in...

June 20, 2020 No Responses

NLC Urges FG To Ratify ILO’s Convention 190 On Sexual Violence, Harassment

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and its allies in the civil society have called on the Federal Government to ratify the International Labour Organisation (ILO’s) Convention 190, on Sexual Violence and Harassment at workplaces. Mr Ayuba Wabba, the NLC Presi...

June 12, 2020 No Responses

Court Sentences Driver To 15-Year Jail For Raping Employer’s Daughter

An Ikeja Special Offences Court has sentenced a driver, Francis Apai, to 15 years imprisonment for raping his employer’s 17-year-old daughter in Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Sherifat Solebo sentenced Apai after finding him gui...

February 23, 2019 No Responses

R Kelly Charged With Sexual Abuse

R Kelly has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, nine of which involve underage girls. The R&B star, whose real name is Robert Sylvester Kelly, has faced decades of claims of sexual abuse against women and...

September 13, 2018 No Responses

Morocco Bans Forced Marriage, Sexual Harassment

Morocco’s law criminalising violence against women has come into force. The law includes a ban on forced marriage, sexual harassment in public places, and tougher penalties for certain forms of violence. It has been criticised by Human Rights Watch...

March 30, 2017 No Responses

JAMA Wellness Survey: More men face sexual assault in Nigeria

The first JAMA wellness survey on Sexual Assault was on Wednesday in Lagos unveiled at the prestigious Lagos Court of Arbitration, Lekki. The outcome of the survey indicates that more men are exposed to sexual assault in Nigeria. The survey...