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DR Congo said Thursday it would launch an inquiry into accusations that international workers in an anti-Ebola campaign had sexually abused local women. A report last month said dozens of women described sexual exploitation by aid workers from the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO) and leading NGOs during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic
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Ivo and Ishielu Local Government areas of Ebonyi State, weekend, fixed dates for a public denouncement of female circumcision (Female Genital Mutilations, FGM
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A Catholic cleric, Rev. Fr. Kale Francis, has advised parents to always pay attention to their male children as most of them are being sexually abused by friends and relatives. Francis, the Parish Priest at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Nyanya, Abuja, gave the advice during the Holy Mass on Sunday when more than
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By Egufe Yafugborhi Two men, identified as pastors, have been arrested by the Rivers State Police Command over alleged sexual abuse on a female youth corps member, serving in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state. River State Commissioner of Police (CP) Joseph Mukan, confirmed the arrest on Saturday and explained that the matter was
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By Festus Ahon ASABA – THE National Association of Seadogs, Pyrates Confraternity, has urged State Governors to renovate and build juvenile centres on Government, Public-Private Partnership so as to provide safe shelters for victims of sexual gender-based violence and domestic violence, especially children and teens. The Pyrates Confraternity, Vito Corsica Deck made the call in
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Miss Arowolo Temitope, a victim of human trafficking, has said she won’t wish on even the devil what she experienced in Lebanon, advising girls to work hard in Nigeria to realise their dreams as against traveling abroad for greener pastures. Temitope gave the advice on her return to Nigeria in the company of 19 other
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A 35-year-old man, Onyebuchi Ezema on Tuesday appeared in an FCT High Court Lugbe, Abuja, for sexually abusing his four-year-old daughter. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons ( NAPTIP), charged Ezema, who resides in Zone 9, Lugbe AirPort Road, Abuja with assault, to which he pleaded not guilty. The Prosecution Counsel,
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Professor Motunrayo Olumakaiye is the Professor of Public Health Nutrition, Obafemi Awolowo University. She is also the President of Women and Girls Organisation, Diocese of Lagos, Anglican Communion. She is the wife of Rt. Rev. Dr. Humphrey Olumakaiye, the Lord Bishop of Lagos Diocese, the Diocesan, and Missioner. In this interview, she speaks on why
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A thirteen-year-old girl who was sexually abused by her father for four years died while giving birth to his child, police in Brazil have said. Schoolgirl Luana Ketlen died on December 11 after she was admitted to hospital suffering severe abdominal pains, before medics discovered she was pregnant. Doctors decided to induce labour and delivered
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Mrs Toun Okewale-Sonaiya, Chief Executive Officer, Women Radio 91.7 FM, has called on tertiary institutions in Nigeria to create platforms for students to rate their lecturers anonymously. Okewale-Sonaiya made the call on Tuesday at the 2019 Olabisi Onabanjo University Alumni Inaugural Annual Lecture series held at Radisson Blu Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. She said that this
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