Busayo* has been in an abusive marriage since 2005. Each time she considers walking out of the marriage, she thinks about the future of her children. “I don’t want to raise them as a single mother and do not want them to miss the presence of their father in their lives as they grow up,” […]
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Sekunderin Yetunde and his family members are yet to return to their residence at Ifelagba community, in the Ido Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, since Nov. 2022, following a threat letter of impending attack by armed robbers. The robbers, in a letter pasted on different houses in the community, threatened to […]
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Adeyeye Olawale has spent three years at Agodi Prison in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria. He has no hope of being released soon. The 40-year-old bricklayer was arrested in 2019 for alleged sexual abuse of a minor and was later charged to court. Though he had a legal representative when the case started, the lawyer later […]
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Hezekiah Olujobi, born on Aug. 8, 1963, suffered unlawful detention at Agodi prison in Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria between Jan. 1987 and March 1993, on allegations of armed robbery which he insists he knew nothing about. While in the correctional centre, he met many inmates who were either awaiting trial or serving jail term […]
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The enthusiastic pupils of Community Basic School in Saki-West Local Government Area (LGA) of Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria, are probably unaware of their predicament. Crammed in one classroom, they happily announce “we are in primary one, primary two, primary three, primary four…” One of the youngest, Moriam Ayanlade, 3, was dressed in pink chiffon. Her […]
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Around 9:30 p.m. WAT on Friday, Oct. 22, heavily armed men invaded the Abolongo Correctional Centre in Oyo, Oyo State. Armed with dynamites, they overpowered officials on duty, before gaining entrance to release hundreds of inmates. According to a statement by the Nigeria Correctional Service, Oyo State Command, 837 inmates, who were still awaiting trial, […]
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Alade Raheemat has not been to her hometown in Saki, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria for five years and she’s not planning to leave Lagos anytime soon. She misses her parents and loved ones in the village but she is scared that her journey may end badly. A petty trader at Obalende underbridge, she is barely […]
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Nearly two years after the establishment of the Western Nigeria Security Network, a security outfit in Nigeria’s Southwest region, codenamed Amotekun, it is trailed by a mix of applause and criticism, successes and losses, triumphs against criminals and allegations of human rights violations by its officers. Following rising insecurity in the Southwest, the six governors […]
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A team of researchers working on the Global Affairs Canada landscape analysis on sexual and gender-based violence have raised alarm over an increasing rate of rape and gender-based violence against women in some communities in Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria. The research, which was funded by Global Affairs Canada, was executed by the United Nations Population […]
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Nigeria, on Sunday, Aug.22, reported eight deaths and 674 new COVID-19 infections, raising total confirmed cases to 185,267, according to government data. The Nigeria Centre Disease Control (NCDC) said the fresh infections were spread across 12 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. Lagos, the country’s epicentre of the pandemic, reported the most infections […]
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Supporters of Sunday Adeyemo popularly known as Sunday Igboho, a separatist agitator on Wednesday, July 7, 2021 protested in Ibadan, Oyo State capital, Southwest Nigeria over the raid on his home by the operatives of the State Security Service. According to The Punch, the protest took off at 12 p.m. WAT, after the protesters converged […]
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During a stop and search operation on Sunday, June 20, Nigerian Army troops patrolling Mokwa-Jebba route in Niger State, North-central Nigeria, have apprehended and detained a fleeing terrorist in a car coming from Zuru, Kebbi State to Ibadan, Oyo State, Southwest Nigeria. Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Army Public Relations, said this in a statement released […]
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