The United Nations would issue a statement after investigating the involvement of a humanitarian worker who allegedly raped a female minor that later committed suicide in Maiduguri, Borno State, a source said. The Daily Trust newspaper had earlier reported that a teenage girl in Maiduguri, Borno state capital committed suicide after being forcefully defiled by […]
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A soldier of the DR Congo national army, FARDC, was shot dead on Sunday, Aug. 22 after he had killed the father of a girl he attempted to rape, two of his colleagues, and a civilian in Kisangani, a town in the northeast of the country. “A sergeant on Sunday killed by bullets, two soldiers […]
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The rape and murder of Olajide Omowunmi Blessing, a student of the University of Ilorin in Kwara State, North-central Nigeria, has been confirmed by the Kwara Police Command on Thursday, June 3, 2021. Blessing was a 300-level student of the Agricultural Science Department and was reported to have been murdered after being raped in her […]
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Recent polls conducted by NOIpolls across Nigeria revealed that 85 per cent of participants believe sexual violence is on the rise in the country. Although this poll covers only 1,000 respondents, rape cases and other forms of sexual violence are commonplace in national dailies. The pandemic bears bizarre imprints such as the rape of two-year-olds, […]
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