Yusuf Samaila is currently being incarcerated at the prison after spending days in Police custody for reporting a Deputy Superintendent of the Nigeria Immigration Service, Sani Muazu to the authority that his wife was raped. Samaila had earlier this month…
Singer Victor AD disputes BBC documentary on TB Joshua, says family benefitted his miracles
Nigerian singer and songwriter, Victor Adere, better known as Victor AD, has faulted a BBC Africa Eye’s documentary that accused the late founder of Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN), TB Joshua, of several atrocities, including stage miracles and sexual…
Did you suffer in boarding house? — Gbubemi Atimomo
Reminiscences of boarding school life and the culture of terror in the guise of punishment and discipline A few weeks ago, a clip of Bovi, the comedian, speaking at Daystar Christian Centre’s “Excellence in Leadership” conference, caught my eye on…
Canada to pay Indigenous abuse survivors more than $2b
Canada will pay hundreds of Indigenous communities more than $2 billion in compensation for nearly a century of abuse suffered by children in residential schools, its government has announced. A class-action lawsuit brought by 324 Indigenous communities has resulted in…
Police arrest couple for abusing 14-year-old daughter
A Bosnian husband and wife have been arrested in Rome, Italy, on suspicion of physically abusing and enslaving their 14-year-old daughter, forcing her to beg outside a supermarket. The police in the Italian capital reported on Sunday. The police said…
Abuse knows no gender, fear women!
Have you heard about or followed the Johnny Depp/ Amber Heard trial. The facts are quite simple. The two parties were married for 23 months and later got divorced. Sometime last year, Depp filed a defamation suit against Heard in…
Divorce-The Christian’s dilemma- Tara Aisida
The death of Osinachi Nwachukwu this past week has again brought to the fore, the issue of domestic violence. Her death seems to be more painful because a lot of people connected with the emotions wrought by her sonorous and…
Dear woman, when will you stop brutalising other people’s children?
The news report of Favour Anigbogu, the nine years old girl burnt with a hot iron by her mistress, one Ginika Nabefe is one too many acts of wickedness by adults to children in recent times. From dislocating a child’s…
Japan child athletes ‘punched in the face, kicked, beaten’
Child athletes in Japan have suffered physical, verbal and sexual abuse while participating in sport activities, according to a new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report. Released on Monday, the 67-page report (PDF) documented the experiences of more than 800 athletes…
Don’t bottle it all up-Tara Aisida
I had seen the video in many of the whatsapp groups that I belonged to but I wasn’t eager to watch it until I began to read the comments which seemed to decry all the new fangled methods of raising…
