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Amina Abubakar(not real name) still remembers the days of horror and pain she spent at Suleja prison in Niger state. Life was beautiful for the 28-year-old when she got married in 2012. She had hopes of a blissful marriage, but little did…

On a breezy evening, January 6 2021, five young girls and one boy walked briskly behind Madame Joy as she led the way to a motor park to catch a night bus due to depart from Makurdi, the capital of the northern state of Benue, in Nigeria,…

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) joined the global community to mark 2022 International Women’s Day with a webinar themed ‘Women in media: Breaking the bias’ on March 8. The session was anchored by one of the…

In this concluding part of the investigation, human rights activists, child rights advocates and other experts lampoon police poor handling of defilement and rape cases, calling for retraining. JULIANA FRANCIS reports The IPO, Osas,…

In this part of the report, JULIANA FRANCIS goes after the alleged perpetrators of these crimes, seeking their sides of the narative other police people attended. The case has been reopened and it was just recently I found out that my…

JULIANA FRANCIS continues with the investigation on how Police Personnel truncate sexual violation cases that have to do with children, causing trauma, injustice He said: “God knows I’m innocent and I’m following God’s instructions.…

Nigerian laws stipulate that cases that have to do with Sex and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) should be charged to court, but the police, who are the first responders to such cases, through their actions and inactions, deprive survivors’…

11 resource persons converge on Lagos between 16 and 17 February at the behest of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) for a two-day ideation session to discuss Report Women! News and Newsroom Engagement project. The…

Hassana Ibrahim* was just 17 when she was allegedly raped by her class teacher in 2019. The teacher, simply identified as Umaru, lured her into his room while returning home from Islamiyya where she attended an Arabic night class in Sokoto.…