Tag Archives: Domestic violence

Women Arise, a leading NGO in the fight for women’s rights and empowerment, and CEE-HOPE, a child/girl’s rights and development organisation, recently stormed the premises of a Lagos court to push for justice in a murder case and to hold a rally on domestic violence. The two organisations were at the Ebute-Meta Magistrate Court December 5 for the hearing of …

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The Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT) has engaged no fewer than 5,000 students from the primary and secondary schools on child rights and child abuse as well as all forms of sexual and domestic violence. The initiative aims to empower them with their roles and responsibilities in handling and preventing such issues, said DSVRT Coordinator, Mrs. …

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Alternate Chairman of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Response Team (DSVRT), Omotilewa Ibirogba, on Monday said the State had, as at Friday last week, recorded 950 reported cases of domestic, sexual violence, and child abuse. This is more than 100 percent increase from a total of 452 similar reported cases in the whole of last year, according to …

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The Magistrate Court, Ebute Metta, Lagos has commenced hearing on the murder case involving a nurse, Folashade Idoko who allegedly stabbed her husband, Lawrence Idoko who later died of hemorrhage in Lagos recently. The Magistrate, Miss K. A. Ariyo on Thursday ordered the suspect to be remanded at the Kirikiri Prisons pending further investigations and advice from the Ministry of …

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A Lagos-based engineer, Mr. Lawrence Ameh Idoko has been reportedly stabbed to death by his wife, an auxiliary nurse, Mrs. Folashade Bashira Idoko. The incident which happened at about 11pm, August 20 at Kosoko Street in Ayetoro area of Lagos (Oto-Awori Local Government Area), was, according to neighbours, including the landlord of the house, a culmination of several years of violent …

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