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Women’s Day: FG working on special court for gender-based violence, says Malami

ABUBAKAR Malami, minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation, has said that the federal government is working towards...

VIDEO: Survivors narrate harrowing experience of Domestic Abuse during COVID-19 lockdown

DESPITE domestication of violence against Persons Prohibition (VAPP ACT), signed in 2019 by President Muhammadu Buhari, cases of Sexual and Gender-based Violence, SGBV are on the increase with those saddled with the responsibility of checking the scourge doing nothing to stop and protect those affected. The ICIR reports the travail of victims of SGBV during the COVID-19 lockdown.
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3 years later, court sentences man to 25 years imprisonment for raping 11-year-old girl

UGOCHUKWU Obiakor, a 36-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by Ogun State High Court for raping...

Making the best of the public anger on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

Udo Jude ILO Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student of the University of Benin was brutally raped and murdered...
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Group urges involvement of adolescent boys in combating gender-based violence

THE fight against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence will yield greater results if teenage boys and young adults are engaged...

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