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Gender & SGBV
Sexually Abused Minors Exposed To Future Harm As Abusers Roam Free
On Feb. 5, 2022, 14-year-old Favour was reportedly sexually abused by one 75-year-old Jimoh Ibeh around the Igando axis in…
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News
Police Yet To Arrest Lagos Despatch Rider Found With Toddler
A despatch rider was caught with a baby inside the courier box on his motorbike in the Sangotedo area of…
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Gender & SGBV
Court Remands Lagos BRT Driver Arrested Over Bamise’s Murder
A magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, has remanded Andrew Nice, driver of the BRT vehicle which Bamise Ayanwola,…
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Gender & SGBV
Lagos State Publishes Names, Pictures Of Sex Offenders
To curb the high rate of rape cases in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, the government has started publishing details of…
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News
Equality Bill: Nigeria’s Rough Road Amid Rise In Gender Based Violence
The exclusion of the equal rights Bill in the amendment of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution by the country’s lawmakers sparked…
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Gender & SGBV
#IWD: Save The Children Tasks Government To End All Forms of GBV
Save the Children International has called on government at all levels (federal, state and local governments) to end all forms…
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Gender & SGBV
Nigeria Struggling To Combat Gender-Based Violence, Despite Laws
Police in Lagos, Southwest Nigeria, are still unravelling the circumstances around the death of 34-year-old Busayo Adewuni, a mother of…
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Armed Violence
Over 8,000 Children Recruited As Soldiers By Armed Groups In Nigeria – UNICEF
In the past 13 years, more than 8,000 girls and boys have been recruited and used as child soldiers in…
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Exclusive
Despite Existing Law, Nigeria Has Third Highest Cases Of FGM – Report
With an estimated 19.9 million survivors, Nigeria accounts for the third highest number of women and girls who have undergone…
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News
14 Reporters To Be Honoured At WSCIJ Award Ceremony
The annual Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) Award has been scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 9 2021, at NECA…
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