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  • Pastor arrested for raping girls aged 11, eight

    The Akwa Ibom State Police Command says it has arrested a community leader, a pastor, and three others for alleged defilement and rape in the state.

    The command Spokesman, CSP Nnudam Fredrick, said this in a statement in Uyo on Tuesday.

    Fredrick said the community leader in Ikot Inyang in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area of the state was arrested for allegedly defiling an 11-year-old girl.

    Fredrick said the community leader, 60, bought bean cake (Akara) from the 11-year-old and asked her to follow him to his room in order to take her money.

    “On reaching the room, the suspect grabbed the victim and forcefully raped her,” he stated.

    He said the command, following intelligence report, also arrested one pastor in one of the churches in Ntak Inyang in Etim Ekpo LGA for allegedly defiling an eight-year-old girl.

    Fredrick said the girl was sent by her guardian to deliver a tin of milk to the pastor when the pastor allegedly committed the illicit act.

    Within the same period, he said the command also arrested three other persons (names withheld) for alleged defilement and rape.

    He added: “The other three suspects conspired and lured a 26-year-old lady to their house and unlawfully assaulted her with fist blows and machete and in the process raped the victim.”

    Fredrick said all the suspects would be arraigned in court on completion of investigations.

    He reassured the people of the state that the command would tackle the issue of rape, gender-based violence and other crimes by ensuring the perpetrators do not escape justice.

  • #ProtectHer: Groups to train girls, women on self-defence

    In the wake of prevalent physical and sexual abuse of girls and women across Nigeria, ProtectHer and Target Search Global Nigeria have announced plans to train hundreds of girls and women on self-defence and general safety.

    A statement by Founder, iSafe and Co-founder, ProtectHer, Clare Henshaw, noted that the partnership will train girls and women on the key concepts and strategies of physical self-defence and general personal safety.

    “The outlook of the collaboration is to empower girls and women with the requisite knowledge for general safety and skills to defend themselves from physical violence and abuse which are on the increase these days,” said Henshaw.

    She implored girls and women across all ages to participate in the training billed to commence in July across Lagos, before moving to other states in Nigeria.

    Globally, about 1 in 3 (35%) women have experienced either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime, the statement noted.

    At least 5 million acts of domestic violence occur annually to women aged 18 years and older, while most events are minor with approximately 45 million children being exposed to violence during childhood, the statement further noted.

    As a community-based initiative, i-Safe seeks to inspire safer communities through engaging, educating, and empowering individuals in various communities on life-changing skills and safety measures using various tools such as human capital development, inclusion, research and safety programmes such as ProtectHer.

    Target Search Global Nigeria is a top-notch security outfit with core services in event and leisure security, door supervision, close protection bodyguards, hostile environment protection, corporate and retail security as well as solutions in the areas of general security consulting and training, security equipment and gadget sales, risk management, critical infrastructure, security technology and surveillance.

    For more information on the training, please contact: isafehub.ng@gmail.com, www.isafehub.org, +2348093550552

  • Photos: Protests rock Lagos, Abuja over rising rape cases, sexual assault against women, girls

    Photos: Protests rock Lagos, Abuja over rising rape cases, sexual assault against women, girls

    Group of protesters on Friday stormed the Nigeria Police Force Headquarters in Abuja, and police command in Lagos to protest the rising spate of rape, sexual violence, assault against women, incest in the country.

    Unanimously, they demanded that there should be declaration of state-of-emergency on gender-based violence in the country.

    The protesters who demanded justice for the rape and killing of Miss Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, Miss Bello Barakat and other victims in the country, called on the police and other security agencies to devise effective strategies to checkmate the rising cases of sexual assault in Nigeria.

    The protest which was organised by TechHerNG, Girl Child Africa, Connected Development, EiE Nigeria, Stand To End Rape, SilverChipFox, Yiaga Africa, Dorothy Njemanze Foundation, and Education as a Vaccine, urged authorities in Nigeria to force systemic action against Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) in Nigeria.

    In statement released by the organisers, it explained a that a memo will be forwarded to the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and the Federal Executive Council calling for an effective and sustained institutional response to SGBV in Nigeria.

    Some of their key demands listed in the statement were: “Domestication of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act and Child Rights Act in all states of the federation; Establishment of Sexual Assault Referral Centers (SARC) in every state, backed with a coordinated, sustainably-funded support system;

    “Criminalisation and prompt state-led prosecution of SGBV cases within, regardless of requests or interference by the victim’s family or interested parties; Implementation of functional Family Support Units and Force Gender Units at the state level that are well equipped to address SGBV cases; The imposition of public disciplinary measures against officials of the NPF and state prosecutors that mishandle cases of SGBV.

  • W.TEC, GlobalGiving partner to raise funds, empower girls

    W.TEC, GlobalGiving partner to raise funds, empower girls

    The Women Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC) says it has partnered with GlobalGiving, a non-profit making platform, to raise funds and empower young girls at the grassroots through its Girl Fund Campaign.

    Mr Yemi Odutola, Communication Officer of W.TEC, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

    NAN reports that GlobalGiving is a non-profit organisation based in U.S that provided a global crowdfunding platform for grassroots charitable projects.

    He said that the Girl Fund Campaign was organised by GlobalGiving to solicit donations for selected organisations which were working to accelerate the equality of women around the world.

    Odutola said the funds raised supported highly effective GlobalGiving projects providing education, legal protection, healthcare, access to training and job skills so that girls could thrive and make a difference in their communities.

    The communication officer said that without the technical and creative skills to work, women would be shut-off from important economic opportunities.

    “Data from the World Economic Forum shows that across industries, many job roles will be significantly based on and enhanced by the use of technology; so, we need to raise funds to train more girls,” he said.

    The communication officer said the online fundraising platform was offering 15 organisations, chances to win a year-long funding from its GirlFund.

    He noted that W.TEC was aiming to win one of the 15 spots.

    Odutola said the funds raised would go toward the flagship of the programme, “She Creates” Camp, which would equip 150 girls with science and technology skills.

    “The “She Creates” STEM Camp helps to intervene early, combat stereotypes and tackle the technology gender divide.

    “We teach girls to build technology, develop science and engineering skills and prepare for related careers.

    “Our two-week immersion programmes empower girls to contribute meaningfully to the digital economy and improve their economic opportunities,” Odutola said.

  • JUST IN: Abductors of Kaduna school girls, teachers demand N50m ransom

    Abductors of six female students and teachers at Engravers College, Kakau Daji in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State have demanded N50m as ransom to free the abductees.

    Recall that the gunmen had in the early hours of Thursday stormed the college and took away six female students and two other staff of the school residing to an unknown destination.

    The spokesman of the Kaduna State Police Command, DSP Yakubu Sabo, confirmed the incident.

    According to reports, one of the parents on Friay said the kidnappers had made contact with the management of the school where they demanded for the N50m ransom.

    The parent who does not want his name on print said: “We learnt that the kidnappers had contacted the college where they first demanded for N30m per head of student.

    “We were told that the school authority told the kidnappers that they could only afford to pay N100, 000 for the release of the students and their teachers.

    “The kidnappers told them they are not serious to get the children back. Negotiation is still going on.”

    It was gathered that the students were immediately sent on break following the abduction of the six female students and two members of staff of the college.

    “We have sent the students on a week break pending when the situation would normalize,” a source told our correspondent.

    One of the traumatized parents, Mr. Julde Juli, whose 15 –year- old daughter was among abductees, prayed that the kidnappers release their children alive.

    “We just pray nothing happens to them and they come out alive. We just have to take things the way it come because is how God ordains it to happen.

    “I used to have two children here (school) but one of them has been taken to the Federal Science School, Sokoto.”

    On what attracted him to taking his children to the school, he said: “from my experience over the years, the school is good based on their performance and the school fee is moderate.”

    On how he felt on hearing of the abduction of his daughter, Juli added, “As a parent, I was shocked on receiving the news of the kidnap of my daughter.”

    He urged all those that indulged in kidnapping for business to repent of the sins.

  • Girls are happy when I use them for nude stunts – Pretty Mike

    Pretty Mike who has a history of putting women on leash and attending events with half-naked women, has revealed that the girls he engage in such stunts with are usually happy about it.
    According to the Lagos socialite, he is not taking advantage of such girls as they are rewarded after each event they turn up for.
    “People think I take advantage of girls, but trust me; those girls are happy and see it as a privilege to go out with me for stunts, because at the end of the day, their palms are heavily greased. What the social media and society paint and reality are two different things,” he told sunnewsonline.
    Pretty Mike further revealed that his parents and family members, are his biggest supporters in all the stunts he pulls on social media.
    “My parents and family are my biggest supporters. My father would say ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’. Sometimes when he sees me pull some stunts, he’ll tell me that he had wanted to pull that same stunt thirty years ago. When I took dwarfs who had calabashes with smoke coming out of them with me to a friend’s wedding, people said I was a ritualist, but my dad called me and said why did I take only three or four dwarfs? He said next time I should take masquerades along with me. And I thought that’s not a bad idea. When people get to know that there is no ulterior motive behind my stunts, we’ll be good,” he added.

  • Why I sing about girls- Davido

    Unknown to many, Davido draws most of the themes of his songs from girls. From ‘If’ to Fall and ‘Assurance’; the crooner has a thing for women.

    In a recent interview, the entertainer acknowledged that the content of his music focuses more on females, adding that he is only being inspired by events and happenings in his immediate environment.

    The 29-year-old father of two kids said Imade Adeleke and Hailey Veronica Adeleke, his two daughters, are a significant influence in his musical career.

    “Like rappers, they are rapping about what they are going through—drugs, their past life or whatever. I’m singing about what I know, which is I grew up happy and being Nigerian,” Davido said.

    “Most of my music is about girls. I have two daughters and most of the people around me are females. So that’s what I sing about because that’s what I experienced. It’s not really a philosophy, it’s just making music based off of how I was raised and being authentic to that”, he told Okay Africa.

    Back in March, the ‘Fia’ singer became the first Nigerian singer to reach 10m followers on Instagram.

    Instagram is a social networking application that enables users capture, share and edit photos, videos and messages with friends in a creative way.

    His 2017 hit song, ”Fall” became the first Nigerian music video to hit 100 million views on YouTube.

    The Daps-directed video had made Nigerian YouTube history as the most -viewed Nigerian music in recent times.

     

     

     

  • 700 women, girls to brainstorm on Nigerian woman’s future in digital age

    700 women, girls to brainstorm on Nigerian woman’s future in digital age

    About 700 women and girls from different fields will converge in Lagos on Aug. 30 to chart a way for the Nigerian woman’s future in the digital age.

    The meeting tagged, “Nigeria Women Digital Summit and Awards, was designed to highlight opportunities available to women in the 21st century to accelerate progress.

    The Center for Cyber Awareness and Development (CECAD), organisers of the summit, said in a statement that it would also provide an opportunity to identify Nigerian women who maximised opportunities offered by the digital age to improve their communities.

    According to the CECAD Executive Director, Dr Bayero Agabi, the summit would have the theme: “Harnessing Opportunities of the Digital Age”.

    Agabi said that the 21st century was witnessing information explosion, where science, technology and innovation would no longer be treated as stand-alone but integral parts of human existence, transforming lives and businesses.

    The CECAD executive director said that the summit participants would review current trends in entrepreneurship, healthcare, politics, businesses, agriculture, social and family lives with regards to how well they had fared in the knowledge economy, using technology.

    He said that the summit would also provide an opportunity to understand better, the position of women in the economy and society being transformed by digital technologies.

    He added that the participants would proffer solutions to some problems limiting women from maximising opportunities in the new age.

    Agabi noted that women worldwide faced challenges even in the face of opportunities offered by technology.

    He said that issues to be addressed at the summit would include digital gender divide, systematic under-representation in top executive positions, and discrimination in employment, especially in science and technology-related fields.

    CECAD is an advocacy, training and public education non-governmental organisation, established in 2015.

    It promotes cyber responsibility.

     

  • We killed our dad for sexually abusing us, teenage girls tell police

    Three Russian teenagers, who allegedly murdered their father have revealed the reason behind their action.

    According to Mirror UK, the teenagers, Kristina, 19, Angelina, 18 and Maria, 17, confessed to jointly killing their heroine-addict father, Mikhail Khachaturyan, claiming they suffered years of appalling sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

    Kristina told police: “We hated him and we wanted just one thing to happen – either that he disappeared or that we never knew him.

    “We wanted him just to go away and never come back.”

    The sisters alleged that on the day of the attack he had threatened them with a knife in their flat near the Altufievskoe highway in Moscow.

    One of the sisters had grabbed the knife and stabbed him, and the others joined in the attack, say reports.

    The man tried to escape the flat but was attacked more and died near the elevator.

    Friends and neighbours claimed the father was tyrannical and that his wife — the girls’ mother — left him because of his abuse, while a son, now a student at Moscow University, had been “thrown out” of the home by the father.

    Sergei, their brother, reported to be 21, was quoted as saying: “My sisters just could not have done it.

    “I don’t know what happened. I don’t know who to believe. I have not lived there since I was 16.

    “He forced our mother to leave too but I do not know what for. He wanted me to grow up a strong man.

    “If he beat anyone it does not mean he was a bad person.”

    In the dead man’s Audi Q7 car police reportedly found two kilograms of heroin along with his arsenal of a pneumatic rifle, a smooth bore rifle, three pneumatic handguns, a signal gun, and a gas gun.

    The three sisters have been charged with murder leading to a maximum penalty of 10 to 15 years in jail.

  • Rapists attack All Girls Secondary School in Abia many students injured [Photos]

    Many students are seriously injured after a suspected rapist attacked the Ovim Girls Secondary Secondary in Isuikwuato Local Government Area of Abia State early this morning.

    According to reports, the rapists came into the school armed with dangerous weapons like Cutlass, iron rod and other weapons.