The Ebonyi State Coordinator of the Commission, Christopher Okorie, made the observation on Monday in Abakaliki, the Ebonyi State capital, during a road walk commencing the NHRC’s seven-day activism against gender violence.
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Omowole said the protest would be virtual in compliance to the federal and state governments’ physical distancing protocol on the management of COVID-19, which discourages large gatherings.
Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the ASUU National President, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ota, Ogun State on Sunday
The England international was arrested on May 17 after facing accusations of sexual assault.
And I don’t want to talk about the raping of minors and even relations that have been daily in the news. I believe that you have been reading the reports of the so-called humans who have been raping their own daughters, some as young as three years and others few months. In Owerri, one has been raping his daughters for years now.
The National President of NCWS, Laraba Shoda, said this in a statement on Thursday in Abuja.
Dr. Dipo Akomolafe, the Chairman of ASUU at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology, Okitipupa, Ondo State, said life imprisonment would curb the criminal act in the country.
Okah-Donli said this while answering questions from newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday
The girl was granted freedom on Wednesday based on legal advice of the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecution that the case lacked ingredients of murder.
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The piece of legislation, titled: “Rape and Insurgency Victims Stigmatisation (Prohibition) Bill 2019,” was sponsored by Senator Mohammed Sani Musa (Niger East)
This was made known by the Director of Child Welfare Services in the state Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Children and Social Welfare, Nkechi Anazodo, in Isuaniocha, Awka North Local Government Area of the state on Monday
This was disclosed by the Kaduna State Ministry of Human Services and Social Development on its Twitter handle on Saturday.
The governor made the declaration in Ado Ekiti while signing the Compulsory Treatment and Care for Child Victims of Sexual Violence Bill 2020 into law.
The Unit, which as at Thursday been set up all over the country, was confirmed by the Commandant General, Abdullahi Muhammadu Gana, at the management meeting held in his office in Abuja.
Bello, a student of Department of Science Laboratory Technology, Federal College of Animal Health and Production, Ibadan, was raped and stabbed to death by hoodlums in her father’s residence at Kara Akinyele area on Monday in Ibadan.
Delivering judgment, Justice Abiola Soladoye held that there was no direct evidence linking the defendant to the alleged crime to warrant a conviction.
Julie Okah-Donli, Director General of the Agency, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Abuja, following the rising cases of rape in the country.
The Zone D of the National Association of Nigerian Students (South West) confirmed the incident as it put out a notice calling for justice in the case.
The musician, who decried the increase in defilement in the country, took to his Instagram page: @official2baba, to express how sad he felt about the situation.