Susan Innocent* was merely 15 when she was allegedly raped by Pastor McDouglas Omosokpea of the Peculiar Generation Assembly Church at Oshodi, Lagos. The teenager tells HumAngle that for three years, the cleric sexually molested her repeatedly until she attempted suicide in 2019. Findings by HumAngle revealed that the cleric had invited the victim for […]
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The police in Borno state, Northeast Nigeria, on Monday, Dec. 6, 2021, paraded four suspects who are currently being charged for alleged cases of rape including a young man who raped a four-year-old girl he lured into a neighbourhood mosque. Abdu Umar, Borno State Commissioner of Police (CP), told journalists during a press briefing that […]
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On the evening of April 26, 2019, Blessing* was shopping for groceries at the popular H-medix supermarket in Gwarimpa, Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, when some plainclothes policemen pointed a gun at her and hurled her into a waiting bus while fumbling her breasts. At first, she was rattled at the thought of her abduction […]
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When Adanna Nwankwo was moving to Lagos, there were so many things she did not think of. Having lived most of her life, sheltered with family, in Awka and Asaba, she had no clue that something as vital as house hunting could be an invitation for multiple harrassments and discrimination. In December 2020, Adanna, a […]
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Civil unrest is brewing in Owu-Ijebu community in Ijebu East Local Government Area of Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria, following the battery of a 60-year-old woman by one of her relatives over a dispute relating to a family house. In Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, Gender Based Violence (GBV) is a topic that has often triggered […]
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When she was only 14 years old, Aisha, a resident of Borno, a state in northeast Nigeria, was kidnapped by Boko Haram members and taken into the forest. She was beaten for trying to escape days into her capture and forcefully married off to one of the insurgents. “He forced himself into me almost on […]
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Akanji Oluwaseyi, a 45-year-old man, has been arrested by men of the Ogun State Police command for forcefully having a carnal knowledge of his 13-year-old daughter (name withheld). Abimbola Oyeyemi, a Deputy Superintendent Police, and Police Public Relations Officer of the command disclosed this in a statement. Oyeyemi said the arrest was made after the […]
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The allegation of sexual harassment against Abiodun Abudu-Balogun, the suspended Commissioner for Environment in Ogun State, has taken a new twist as both the alleged victim and her father announced in separate videos that they “want the matter to rest”. HumAngle reports that 16-year-old Barakat Melojuekun accused Abudu-Balogun of sexually harassing her in his private […]
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Melojuekun Barakat, a 16-year-old student of Victory Model College, in Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun State, Southwest Nigeria has accused a former member of the House of Representatives, Abiodun Abudu-Balogun of sexually harassing her in his private residence in Ita-Otu area of the state. The minor made the allegation in a viral video […]
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As part of plans to end Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria, the Canadian High Commission and Connected Development (CODE) has urged state governments to promptly adopt the Violence against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act. They urged the Nigerian government to establish a comprehensive policy and regulatory framework that guarantees the safety and security of […]
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Jigawa State Ministry of Justice has secured the conviction of three sexual offenders, sentencing them to different jail terms. A statement by Zainab Santali, Public Relations Officer of the Ministry stated that the state High Court on Thursday sentenced a 34-year-old rapist, Ibrahim Yusuf to 1 years imprisonment. Santali said the presiding judge, Justice Musa […]
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Governor Bello Matawalle of Zamfara State, Northwest Nigeria, has inaugurated a 22-man committee to campaign against gender-based violence and abuse of human rights. The governor said the committee would work effortlessly to ensure that abuse against women and children was tackled. He charged members of the committee to execute their duties effectively to ensure that […]
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