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20-Year-Old Girl Raped And Murdered In Illorin

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JUST IN 20 YEAR OLD GIRL RAPED IN ILORIN 20-Year-Old Girl Raped And Killed In Illorin 20-year-old lady identified as Abdulrahman Safau Omowumi has been reported raped and matcheted to death at Gerewu area of Ilorin metropolis. The deceased was, until her death a student of Bathelomew College of Health Technology, Shao in Moro local government area of Kwara State. The deceased, until her death was doing her internship at Abebi Hospital Gerewu, and temporarily lived with her uncle at Gerewu due to proximity to her place of attachment. She left home on Saturday 27th of June around 4pm and she did not return home till Sunday morning. The family reported to the police. The police later found her corpse beside a river at Oko-oba in Gerewu village on Sunday morning, with matchet cuts on her head , and bruises in her virginal, she was suspected to have been raped. Her corpse was deposited at the Ilorin General Hospital morgue From the noise maker wall

IT'S NOT OUR CULTURE

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"It's not our culture That women should dress indecently" Some African tribes go nude till recently People should decide what they wear independently "It's not our culture That women should not want to marry" Just tell us you need an event so you can merry Just tell us you want a fortune out of the dowry "It's not our culture That women should sell their bodies for money" Patriarchy, not sex work, should be your agony And the poverty colonisation brought to accompany "It's not our culture That women should love women and have sex" Our race have always had varied sexual specs Every race, from Native Indians to the Aztecs "It's not our culture That a woman should not want to bear a child" But children you can't feed end up in the wild Jungle animals whose lives poverty styled "It's not our culture That a woman should love more than one man" Yet you do not say the same for the man Just tell us unequal ...

January to May 2020 Rape case in Nigeria

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Do you know that between January and May 2020, the Nigerian Police has recorded 717 rape cases across the country,799 suspects arrested, 631 of which have been conclusively investigated and charged to court, 52 still under investigation... Do you also know that * Victim Blaming has stopped so many people from reporting their abuse cases? * Mishandling of rape cases too has led to increase in the crime as well as making victims cold towards seeking legal recourse? *The Nigerian anti rape law also has its shortcomings, as victims are made to produce proofs that consent wasn't given? *The senate passed a bill in 2015 which prescribed life imprisonment for rapist and anyone who has any form of sexual relationship with a child under the age of 11? Yet this has not deterred the criminals because instead of the prescribed punishment, these guys are often pardoned and ask to offer community service. * The effects of rape on a victim is such that affects him/her socially, psychologically,...