A lecturer at the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Tony Asekhauno, has remained silent after past female students of the institution accused him of demanding sexual favours and threatening those who refused his advances with failure, while they were under his tutelage. In a series of trending...
STAKEHOLDERS in Nigeria’s educational sector have urged tertiary institutions to publicise resolved cases of sexual harassment in schools to further encourage students to report such incidents. This appeal was made during a progress review meeting of Independent Sexual Harassment Prohibition Committees (ISHPCs) in various tertiary institutions,...
A video of a yet-to-be-identified lecturer suspected to be a professor at the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) in Enugu State, who attempted to sexually harass a female student, went viral on Monday, April 22. In the video, the lecturer was recorded in just his underwear...
MORE lecturers were accused of sexual harassment by students tertiary institutions in 2023 than any other year in the last five years. According to a survey by Oga Lecturer, at least 43 lecturers were accused or indicted for sexual harassment between 2018 and 2023. Based on...
CALLS for justice have continued following the rape and death of fourteen-year-old Keren-Happuch Akpagher, a boarding student of Premier Academy, Lugbe, in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT), who died in June 2021. At a book launch held in Abuja on Wednesday, April 10, stakeholders also asked...
A Federal High Court in Abuja, has granted bail to suspended Dean of Law, University of Calabar (UNICAL) Cyril Ndifon, who was accused of sexually harassing students of his faculty. Ndifon’s lawyer Sunny Anyanwu who was arraigned with him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other...
THE Lagos State Police Command has failed to provide information on the arraignment of a lecturer at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Kadiri Akeem Babalola, who was accused of raping a 20-year-old female student of the school in 2023. Oga Lecturer contacted the Lagos State Police...
A Civil Society Organisation (CSO) Gender Mobile Initiative (GMI), has demanded that presidential assent be immediately granted to a bill to prevent sexual harassment in tertiary institutions by Nigerian President Bola Tinubu. During a press briefing on Monday, November 27, in commemoration of the global observance...
