sexual harassment By Itoro Etukudo SOME students at the Federal University, Lokoja (FUL), Kogi State, on Friday, May 10 reportedly stripped naked a senior lecturer of the institution after he was accused of making sexual advances towards a female undergraduate. According to a report, the lecturer,...
sexually harassed By Fatimah Quadri WHILE the term “sexual harassment” is quite common, many people, including survivors, are sometimes unsure of the factors that constitute it and do not know when they are being sexually harassed. According to human resource management organisation SHRM, sexual harassment can...
violence By Clarion O. Olusegun In Lagos, as is the case in many states across Nigeria, women and girls are confronted with various forms of violence, including sexual abuse. Despite existing laws against such acts, survivors remain silent for fear of being ridiculed, judged, stigmatised and...
An audio clip of a University of Ilorin lecturer sexually harassing one of his students has led to his resignation. Allegedly caught in the act, which leaked on social media last week, was Dr. Mohamed Sani Idiagbon, the Head of the Department of English. His victim, identified...
Jigawa state commissioner of police, Henry Fadairo, has said that less than one month after he took over the police command in the state, the command has charged 53 people to court over rape and sodomy. Fadairo, who spoke to journalists in Dutse on Thursday, said the...
The Federal High Court, Calabar has ruled that the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has the powers to investigate a former Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Calabar, Cyril Ndifon, over allegation of raping one of his students. By Editorial...
The level of slavery and rape going on in the the Internally Displaced Persons, IDP, camp in Maiduguri, the case of a 15 year olg girl called Lami On a bed at the female ward of the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital laid a 15-year-old girl...
A local government worker in Ekiti State, Ojo Ayodele has been sentenced to life imprisonment for abducting and raping a minor. By Editorial | May 10, 2017 Justice Oluwatoyin Abodunde of the Ado-Ekiti High Court handed down the sentence on Wednesday after finding the accused person guilty of the offence....
