Reports

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’…

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.…

Victims of Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) usually encounter all manner of difficulties in their quest for justice against their violators and abusers. In this report, CHIKA MEFOR-NWACHUKWU examines how the families of these victims…

There is an odd practice among the Becheve tribe in Cross River State whereby girls, sometimes as young as four years old, are used as collateral for loans their parents obtained from more illustrious kinsmen. Unfortunately, the innocent…

After three successive years of the ReportWomen! Female Reporters Leadership Programme, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ published an assessment report to document the impact of the programme among its…