Nollywoods screen top shot, Elvin Ibru, on Monday said she would love to meet her 2004 rapist, expressing confidence of seeing the armed robbers again. Ibru, a star actress, who played the role of Mopelola in the blockbuster movie, “Lagos Bling” in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) urged rape victims to […]

The Executive Director, UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngouka has called for a total end to rape while recommending the recruitment of more women into the police forces and training them adequately as a crucial first step in ensuring that survivors begin to trust again. READ ALSO: ‘Break silence, speak up’, women lawyers urge victims of rape In […]

The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) Nigeria, Abuja chapter, has called on victims of rape to break the silence and speak up.

By Shina Abubakar Three men, Ogundeji Ridwan, 22, Tiamiyu Jelili, 25 and Asimiyu Olaitan, 20,  arraigned before a magistrate court sitting in Osogbo for allegedly defiling a girl. They were said to have unlawfully and indecently assaulted a girl whose age wasn’t known (name withheld) by unlawfully having carnal knowledge of her through rape. According […]

Mr Danlami Basharu, the Chairman, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on Thursday, urged government to protect blind children from rape, other forms of abuse and discrimination. He made the call at a news conference in Abuja. According to him, an alleged case of sexual assault on a girl in 2018 by […]

Mr. Danlami Basharu, the Chairman, UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, on Thursday, urged the government to protect blind children from rape, other forms of abuse and discrimination. He made the call at a news conference in Abuja. According to him, an alleged case of sexual assault on a girl in 2018 […]

Lawyer Fundile Matoto, who agreed to represent the women without fee after the case drew national attention, does not deny the attack took place but said the charges should be reduced.

Babcock University, Ilishan, Ogun State has confirmed the expulsion of a 300-level student found in a sex tape. The school authority explained that her partner had been expelled in February for various misconduct. In a statement signed by its Director of Communication and Marketing, Joshua Suleiman, revealed that the video which broke the internet early […]

Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege and Wife of Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu have advocated for more potent laws that would protect the girl in the face of escalating incidence of rape and sexual abuse in the country.

In an interview with NAN, the Director-General of Kebbi Concerned Citizens (KCC), Alhaji Ibrahim Muhammed, who reported the rape case to the state Police Command, said the suspects would soon be taken to court.

…As police detain victim’s father BY Ugochukwu Alaribe The Police in Abia State has arrested a barber, identified as Ndubuisi Ohuonu, over alleged rape of an eight-year-old girl(name withheld), at Isiala Ntighauzo community, Obingwa council area. The suspect, who rented a shop near the community market, was said to have been nabbed by the youths […]

Police in East Sussex is investigating reports that a woman in her 50s was raped in a graveyard by a man who sat beside her on a bench.  

A 21-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping a grandmother of 90 years in Bomet East Constituency, Kenya. Newslexpoint reports that the accused was apprehended on Thursday evening at Mulot town in Bomet County after the ‘Nyumba Kumi’ members spent the whole day hunting for him. READ ALSO: Teenager whose father raped 4 times […]

A Lebanese man was sentenced to death on Friday on charges of murdering a British embassy employee nearly two years ago, Lebanon’s official news agency NNA reported. The ruling, issued by a criminal court in the area of Mount Lebanon, North East of Beirut, can be appealed. The court convicted the man, identified as Tarek […]

A teenager has spoken about the sickening sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of her dad from the age of just six-years-old. Shannon Clifton was raped by the man who was supposed to protect her and has had his baby but now she wants to help others see “the light at the end of […]