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Court Sentences ‘Prophet’ Adeleye Akingbaso to Life Imprisonment for Rape
Justice Blessing Ajileye of the Ekiti State High Court has sentenced 47-year-old self-proclaimed prophet Adeleye Akingbaso to life imprisonment for raping a 13-year-old girl. The judgment, which was delivered on Monday in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State,…
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Featured
The New Face of Widow Oppression in Nigeria
We often boast about our progress from the dark days when widows were forced to drink their deceased husband’s corpse wash water to prove their innocence. Yet, have we truly evolved, or have we merely…
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Politics
“Address All Systemic and Structural Issues That Women Face”–Ezekwesili
Former Minister Oby Ezekwesili, founder of FixPolitics, has called on the Nigerian National Assembly (NASS) to address the systemic challenges faced by women in both public and private leadership spaces. In a tweet on February…
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News
Muyiwa Kolapo Gets Life Imprisonment for Raping Student
Muyiwa Kolapo, a former part-time lecturer at Lagos State University of Education (formerly Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education) and father of three children, had been sentenced to life imprisonment for raping one of his students.…