Tag Archives: Nigeria

She disclosed this on the latest episode of her podcast, Archetypes. While having a conversation with Senegalese-American actress and comedian Issa Rae, Nigerian-American comedian and writer Ziwe Fumudoh, and professor Emily Bernards, the Duchess of Sussex told listeners that she took a genealogy test which revealed that she is 43% ...

Lawmakers in Nigeria’s Kaduna State have approved surgical castration as punishment for those convicted of raping children under the age of 14. State governor Nasir Ahmad el-Rufai needs to sign the bill for it to become law in the north-western state. He has previously supported castration to prevent rapists from ...

Tamar Braxton’s Nigerian boyfriend, David Adefeso, has filed for a restraining order against the former “The Real” host.   According to TMZ, Adefeso filed a “domestic violence” restraining order against 43-year-old reality star at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse in Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 8. The details surrounding the restraining order ...

Some Twitter users have taken to the platform to accuse two Nigerian law school lecturers of telling lawyers not to report sexual assault because it takes two to tango.   Actress Lolia Etomi who first made the disclosure, alleged that one of the female lecturers went on to blame female students ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — In May, hundreds of thousands of people around the world became familiar with the slight smile of a young student named Uwa Omozuwa. She was studying in a church, working toward a degree in microbiology, when she was violently raped. Within days, she had died from the brutal ...

A non-profit organisation, IPAS, says that Nigeria is witnessing a rise in sexual violence, including rape and incest. This is contained in a communique issued at the end of a three-day media training for journalists on Women’s Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights/Global Gag Rule (GGR). The News Agency of Nigeria ...

A video of a Nigerian lady turning down the proposal of her boyfriend has since gone viral.   The lover man had gathered his friends and family to witness the moment he would ask for his girlfriend’s hand in marriage. In the video making the rounds on social media, the man is ...

A FORMER Catholic Archbishop has told the High Court he had an “inappropriate” sexual relationship with a woman in Nigeria which began in 1989 when she was aged 20 and he was 40. Tipperary-born Richard Burke (66), ordained a priest in 1975, said he felt “uneasy” about the demeanour of ...