By Avril Eyewu-Edero This week there has been a lot of sad stories about sexual assaults in the news in Nigeria. This crime has continued to ruin a lot of lives, both male and female, and justice is usually a long shot. It is important to define and understand the terminologies involved to be able […]

US presidential candidate Joe Biden on Friday emphatically denied sexually assaulting a former staffer, saying the incident she claims occurred in 1993 “never happened.” “They aren’t true. This never happened,” Biden said of the accusations made by Tara Reade, a former staffer in his US Senate office. Biden, who broke a month of silence on […]

Pressure is mounting on Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden to personally respond to a sexual assault allegation made by a former Senate aide — despite a strong denial issued by his campaign. Tara Reade, 56, claims that the assault took place in 1993, when she was a 29-year-old staff assistant in the office of Biden, […]

…They video recorded the moment as they stripped me, inserted fingers in my body -Victim By Egufe Yafugborhi – Port Harcourt Police in Rivers State on Friday disclosed the arrest of an eight-man vigilante team in Diobu, Port Harcourt for alleged rape and kidnapping. The arrest followed the report by a 21 year old girl […]

A high-profile sexual assault investigation in China has prompted many to come forward online with similar experiences of abuse in a country where it remains tough to get justice for such crimes. A prominent Chinese lawyer who sat on the board of telecoms equipment maker ZTE stepped down last week after local media reported he […]