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  • Police raid Anambra brothel, arrest under-aged sex workers

    A group of under-aged girls suspected to be commercial sex workers have been arrested in a brothel along Ring Road, Enugwu-Ukwu, Njikoka Local Government Area of the State.

    The brothel, popularly known as Venue Spot, disguised as a restaurant, was reportedly raided by the police following
    a tip-off by concerned indigenes of the community.

    The Nation learnt that the action was occasioned by a joint petition by the Enugwu-Ukwu Traditional Authority and Enugwu-Ukwu Community Development Union (ECDU) to the police headquarters in Awka.

    The petition alleged that commuters plying that area were being harassed and embarrassed by underage commercial sex workers.

    The President General of the Community, Comrade Bonny Ozo- Nkwuaku, who supervised the raid, warned that Enugwu-Ukwu has no place for such illegal acts which, he said bred criminality and corruption of morals among youths in the area.

    “Enugwu-Ukwu people are known for their industrial spirit and enterprise. We live very decent lives and are law abiding. We can’t tolerate such businesses in our community.

    “We have also discovered that most of the commercial sex workers and their patrons are non Enugwu-Ukwu indigenes. We can’t allow them to come and soil the name of our town,” he stressed.

    The Nation further learnt that the brothel was immediately sealed after the raid while the suspects and their patronisers were taken to Awka to be arraigned in court.

  • OAU ‘sex for mark professor’ remanded in prison custody

    A Federal High Court, sitting in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Monday ordered that a “sex for mark” sacked senior lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Professor  Richard Akindele, to be remanded in prison custody.
    The presiding judge, Justice Maurine Onyetenu, ordered that Akindele be remanded in prison at Ilesa for demanding sex from her post graduate student,  Monica Osagie, before she could pass his course.
    The embattled Professor of Management and Accounting was arraigned in court on a four count charge by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offenses Commission (ICPC).
    The anti-graft agency alleged that the accused unlawfully demanded sex from his student and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section A (1)(2) of the corrupt practices and other related offences.
    The charge sheet read in part: “That you Professor Richard Iyiola Akindele on 16 September, 2018, did unlawfully solicit for sex from your student Monica Osagie, and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 18 of the corrupt practices and other related offences, 2000.”
    The caused person was also alleged to have unlawfully had WhatsApp conversation with Osagie sometimes in June 2018, and thereby committed an offence contrary to the law.
    Taking his plea, the accused pleaded not guilty to the four count charge.
    The Defence Counsel, Mr. F. Omotosho, who urged the court to grant his client bail, said “he is a known professor and can not jump bail.”
    The prosecutor, who is a Senior legal officer with the ICPC, Mr. Kehinde Adetoye, opposed the oral bail application of the counsel, noting that the accused has refused to appear at the commission since he was granted administrative bail.
    He said: “We have been making efforts since 5th of November to effect the service of the process. They have refused to come back and they were not reachable on mobile phone. We are surprised to see them here today. We just served them the process.”
    In her ruling, Justice Onyetenu directed counsel to the accused to file a formal application for the bail of his client.
    She ordered that the accused be remanded in prison custody at Ilesa and therefore, adjourned the matter till November 27 for definite hearing.

  • Court upholds CAC’s rejection of same sex group

    Proponents of same sex union have suffered a major defeat as a Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected their move to legitimise their activities in the country.
    Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, in a judgment on Friday, upheld the decision by the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) to reject an application for the registration of a lesbian group.
    The judgment was on a suit, marked: FHC /ABJ/CS/827/2018 filed by Pamela Adie, through her lawyer, Mike Enahoro-Ebah.
    According to court documents, Pamela founded the group – Lesbian Equality and Empowerment Initiatives (LEEI) – sometime in October 2017, with the aim to advocate for the rights of people with same sex sexual orientation.
    She subsequently applied to the CAC for registration, an application the agency turned down on the ground that it, among others, offends public policy.
    Pamela then approached the court, by way of a fundamental rights enforcement application, contending the CAC’s decision amounted to a violation of her constitutionally guaranteed right to form and belong to an association.
    She prayed the court for an order of mandamus, compelling the CAC to forthwith issue notice of approval for her group, the “Lesbian Equality and Empowerment Initiatives” for onward registration with the Commission.
    Justice Dimgba, in the judgment on Friday, upheld the counter-argument by the respondent (the CAC), to the effect that its refusal to register the group was in compliance with Section 30 (1)(C) of the Companies And Allied Matters Act (CAMA) Cap C20 Laws of Federation of Nigeria 2004.
    ‎The judge said: “It is my view that, where either the proposed name of the company or its aims and objectives are caught by the provisions of Section 30 (1)(C) of CAMA, the respondent (CAC) is duly empowered to reject such an application for reservation of name or registration as it has done in this case.
    “Section 30(1) (c) of CAMA reads: ‘No ‎company shall be registered under this Act by a name which- (c) in the opinion of the Commission is capable of being misleading as to the nature or extent of its activities or is undesirable, offensive or otherwise contrary to public policy.’
    “There is no doubt that the applicant has the right to form or belong to any association of her choice as provided by Section 40 of the 1999, in so far as the enjoyment of such a right is not limited by Section 45 of the same Constitution, which provides the basis for the limitation of the enjoyment of the rights guaranteed by Section 40 above.
    “Instances where the right to form and belong to an association can be limited, as provided in Section 45 (1) (a) of the 1999 Constitution, includes situations where such a right is in conflict with public safety, public order, public morality.
    “As such, the rights of the applicant to form and register an association are not absolute. They are to be exercised and enjoyed within the precincts of the law.
    ‎”Strictly speaking, it is on the basis of the protection of public morality, as provided  by Section 45 (1) of the 1999 Constitution, that some laws were enacted by the National Assembly to safeguard same.
    “The Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act of 2013 is an example of one of these laws. Section 4 (1) of the Same Sex Marriage Act prohibits the registration of same sex associations.
    “It provides as follows: ‘The Registration of organisations, of their meetings is prohibited. Gay clubs, societies and sustenance, processions and meetings are prohibited.’
    “It could not have been the intention of the Legislature to prohibit the registration of gay associations, while allowing lesbian associations, as learned counsel (for the applicant) appears to be advocating with this distinction.
    “The court, being a court of law and justice, must give effect, not just to the literal meaning of words, but also give effect to the real intention of the Legislature in the construction of statutes.
    “Moreover, it is common knowledge that in recent times, the word “gay” is used to denote homosexuals, lesbians, bisexuals and transgenders.
    “On the contention that the rejection of the reservation of the applicant’s proposed name of an association is a violation of the applicant’s right to freedom of expression, it is my view that such an argument merits a summary dismissal as the arguments in support of this contention are similar to the one earlier dismissed,” the judge said.
    He agreed with the applicant that she has the right to freedom of expression, but held that the CAC did not violate Pamela’s right to freedom of expression in rejecting her application.
     The judge noted that the name of Pamela’s group was, in itself, in collision with an existing and operational law.
    Justice Dimgba added: “The respondent being a regulator, was established to carry out functions as listed in Section 7 of CAMA, which includes the regulation and supervision of the formation, incorporation, registration, management, and winding-up of companies.
    “It is also empowered under Section 30 of CAMA to exercise its discretion in the approval of names for registration.
    “So far as the Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act is still much operative in Nigeria and has not been repealed, the case of the applicant must fail,” the judge said and proceeded to dismiss the suit.

  • Groups push for sex education curriculum in schools

    Education as a Vaccine, (EVA) in conjunction with Girls’ Power Initiative Nigeria, GPI, and the Nigeria Youth Advocates Group, YAG, has declared its intention to advocate for proper sex education across Nigerian schools.

    EVA made the pledge  at the Dissemination of Situation Analysis report of the State of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Adolescents and Young people in Ondo, Kaduna, and Cross River States held at Abuja on Tuesday.

    The Deputy Director, Ondo State Ministry of Youth and Sports, Mrs. Olukemi Okukpe, during an interview, assured that the Ondo state government is making great efforts to implement into law a sex education bill.

    “We are currently putting together a bill to do with the adolescent and youth program, which will definitely incorporate the awareness of contraceptives,” she said.

    “It will be part of the curriculum in schools, because we already have the National Family Life and HIV Education (FLHE) curriculum in schools.

    “A major challenge is the private schools because most private schools are established by ultra-religious proprietors who see sex education as a taboo and not the necessity it is.

    “We are working with the Child Protection Officer of the state Ministry of Women Affairs, some of the stakeholders in the state, and more to draft the policy, so we are waiting for it to be passed hopefully soon.”

    The sexual health and rights groups shared their findings after conducting analyses into the current state of adolescents and young persons to ascertain the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in various communities across the country.

    The groups also called for the federal and state governments and also traditional and religious leaders to develop policies and laws to address the SRH needs of adolescents and young persons and allocating proper budgets to the cause.

    The analysis also cited various factors affecting SRH for adolescents as being social factors such as religious doctrines, cultural factors such as early child marriages and forced marriages, economic factors such as poverty, and poor political frameworks and policies in the states studied.

    According to their findings, 80% of adolescents and young persons in Cross River state, 17% in Kaduna, and 69% in Ondo reported to be engaged in high-risk sexual behaviors.

    Also, 32% of women aged 15-49 in Cross River state have experienced some form of Female Genital Mutilation, ranking third highest in the South-South region of Nigeria.

    Director, Educational Resource Center, Cross River State Ministry of Education, Barr. Francis Oyije, in an interview affirmed that the state government is aimed at creating awareness for the various sexual epidemics such as female circumcision and sexual violence in the state.

    In Kaduna State, which is yet to adopt the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act and yet to pass the bill against Gender-Based Violence, the research showed a correlation between high rates of girls out of school and high rates of early marriage.

    A CSO representative in Kaduna observed that ‘the norms and other cultural practices limit the adolescents and young persons from accessing factual information about their sexual reproductive health and rights.’

  • Desist from illicit drugs, sex, youths told

    President of Voice of Joy and Gladness Women International Ministry Pastor (Mrs.) Bukola Oladiyun has urged youth to abstain from illicit drugs and sex.

    She advised them to channel their strength to more sensible missions that will benefit them and the nation.

    She spoke at a special outreach tagged ‘sex, dating, drug and the truth’ in Lagos.

    Oladiyun pointed out drugs, sex and alcoholism impact negatively on physical health of youths and their thought patterns.

    “Youths have power, energy, drive, passion and when all these are well invested there is a beautiful dividend for them, nation and the whole world.

    “But if they addicted to drugs, it will compromise their body system, sense, blood, tissues and other vital body systems and weaken their youth body and affect their mission,” she stated.

    She charged parents, government and religious leaders to maximise the potentials of youths by advising and guiding them toward the future because they are the resources of tomorrow.

    Special Adviser to the President of ECOWAS Youth Council (EYC) on Conflict Resolution in Diaspora Matter, Ambassador Tosin Adebuji applauded Oladiyun for taking the bold step to advocate against ungodly sex and illicit drug intake among youths

     

  • Businesswoman seeks marriage dissolution over sex denial

    A businesswoman, Monsurat Ogundipe, on Tuesday  urged an Agege Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve her 14-year old marriage to  her husband, Sheriff,  due to denial of sex  and  lack of   love.

    The petitioner, who resides at Ijaiye Street, Abule Egba area of Lagos, told the court that she was no longer interested in the union.

    “My husband is irresponsible; he is a chronic liar and has denied me  sex for over two years.

    “He is a drunkard, who drinks to stupor and misbehaves  and this usually leads to shame and serious embarrassment for me and our children.

    “I can no longer bear the emotional and verbal torture I suffer in his hands.

    “My husband is fond of saying he is not going to  send me packing  and that  when l am  tired, l will move out without being told,’’ she said.

    The mother of three, who admitted that  her husband does not beat her, claimed that  the emotional abuse had been unbearable.

    “My husband frustrates my efforts and brings in different women into our matrimonial home without any form of respect for me.

    “All my husband does is to drink and engage in extra marital affairs.

    “He is not caring and lacks respect for the institution of marriage; please separate us, I can no longer live with him,” she told  the court.

    The respondent and an official of the  Nigeria Immigration Service admitted that he had denied his wife  sex.

    He also  urged the court to dissolve the  marriage, claiming that he no longer loves  his wife.

    “I try my best to cater for my family but my wife is never satisfied,” he said.

    The respondent also described the petitioner as arrogant and unwilling  to be submissive to him.

    He further  admitted that he was engaged in relationship with  other women because his wife refused to have sex with him.

    “She wants to usurp my authority in the house and  has no iota of respect for me.

    “Trouble started when my younger sister came to stay with us;  my wife declared that she will not have sex with me until my sister leaves the house.

    “For six months, my wife refused to have sex with me which led to my drinking habit and since then, l  have lost interest in her,” he said.

    The respondent also alleged that his wife was promiscuous, claiming that  she often  received strange calls and text messages from different men at odd hours.

    He alleged that one of his wife’s concubines also placed the “magun’’ charm on  her.

    “I later discovered this  through prayers or else I would have been dead.

    “I don’t trust my wife and I  no longer love her, l , therefore,  urge the court to dissolve the marriage so that we can go our separate ways,’’ he said.

    The court’s President, Mrs Ibironke Elabor, who advised the estranged couple to keep the peace, adjourned the case till July 26 for alternative dispute resolution. (NAN)

  • MTV Shuga addresses sex, rape and consent with documentary

    With the world fixed on the outcry by women over sexual abuse and exploitation, MTV Shuga In Real Life (MTV Shuga IRL) is set to beam its searchlight on the topic with a 30-minute special that will chronicle the lives of these real individuals as they  go through the struggles portrayed in the hit series.

    In a statement by the organisers of MTV Shuga IRL, the documentary will address issues such as unprotected  sex, transactional sex, female education and the myths behind contraceptives.

    “This generation may have access to more information than ever before and this has definitely translated to more awareness on subjects relating to sex, rape and consent,” it said.

    “However, very little has changed in behavioural pattern, people are still getting raped on a daily, guys still can’t tell when no means no and young people are still having unprotected sex without a care in the world.

    “While many Tv series and movies have sometimes touched on the subject matter none has really taken such an honest approach to the problem like MTV Shuga In real life. Here it’s no acting, no script, no false depiction, just real life stories of people dealing with these issues that have plagued our nation. In this season the drama portrays a young girl being sexually abused by older men at a party and a young woman trying to make a career in music only to be raped by a senior figure in the industry. In MTV Shuga IRL, a young woman caught in the world of transactional sex tells of being drugged and abused.

    “While Nigeria as a nation may not have evolved quickly enough to curb some of these vices that have defined us, one of the highlights of the documentary was seeing people who have been caught up in transactional sex turn a new leaf and change their lives for the better.”

    Though Nigeria is not forefront on this advocacy, organisers of MTV Shuga believe Nigerians are concerned about it, talk about it but it seems we’re not concerned “because we don’t shine the beamlight enough on our own stories of sexual abuse.”

  • My dad blackmailed me for sex, says daughter

    An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court yesterday heard how a father sexually violated his daughter by blackmailing her.

    The girl, 18, told the court that her father started having sex with her at 12 through blackmail.

    Her father, Folorunso Oluwaseun, 52, was arraigned on February 8 on a two-count charge of defilement and sexual assault.

    The girl, the first prosecution witness, said the sexual abuse spanned four years (2012 to 2016) before she was removed from her father’s care by her mother.

    Oluwaseun, she claimed, blackmailed her by refusing to give her and her siblings aged five and two food unless she gave in to his incestuous demands.

    Led in evidence by the prosecutor, Mr Babajide Boye, she said: “When the abuse occurred, I was living with my father and four siblings at Ofin in Ikorodu and my mother was staying in Ibadan.

    “When it happened, I told my immediate younger sister and she said it is a curse in the Bible, I told my father and he told me it is not a curse that God knows he doesn’t have a wife and God won’t count it as a sin.

    “I allowed him to continue but my sister said it was not good and I told him I can’t allow him to continue and he told me that he would not give us food unless I allowed him to continue.

    “He refused to give us food and my young brothers aged five and two were very hungry so my sister said I should allow him to continue so he will give us food since he said it is not a sin and I allowed him continue. I decided to tell his sister, Mummy Tosin and she promised to talk to him.

    “He approached me asking why I told his sister after he has told me it isn’t a sin and that it is only if he has sexual intercourse with me that he will have money to take care of us,” she said.

    The witness added: “In 2013, my mother came back home but left after about a month. He stopped when she was around and started again when she left, I didn’t tell my mother because my father said I should not tell her. We usually go to the camp of the Apostolic Church every year and my father told me that his sister reported him to his mother and his mother told him not to get me pregnant. I told my sister and, she said our father’s family doesn’t like us at all. Around August 2016, my mother came back home and one night he searched for me wanting to sleep with me again.

    “When my mother caught him, she started shouting but he shouted back at her saying what can she do to him. My mother took all of us to Ibadan saying if she stayed after knowing about the acts my dad can kill her.”

    The teenager said her father’s blackmail continued when the family moved to Ibadan.

    “I was teaching in a small school in Ibadan and we used to call him to send us money but he will say until we come back to Ikorodu.

    “I didn’t want to go back so I went to the owner of the school asking for salary increment and I told her everything I went through in the hands of my father,” she said.

    The witness said she reported the matter through the help of the school owner.

    The teenager’s mother, who was the second prosecution witness, said left Oluwaseun after he accused her of witchcraft.

    “I moved to Ibadan where I began selling raw food stuff and sending gifts to my sister to give my children occasionally because their father refused me direct access to them. I was unaware of everything that happened to my daughter as she never confided in me until I caught her father in the act. I left with my children after he refused to accept responsibility or show any form of repentance for his actions. I feared he will kill me in a bid to cover up the secret,” the mother said.

    Justice Sybil Nwaka adjourned till June 21.

  • I didn’t buy N5m doll for sex, says Mr Shaa

    Mr. Shaa, the first Nigerian entertainer to admit buying a sex doll has said he didn’t buy it to satisfy his sexual urge.

    “I did not buy the doll to satisfy my sexual urge” said the ‘I No Well’ artiste who was recently spotted taking the his newly acquired five million naira sex doll on a date in Lagos.

    “I just wanted something that looks like a woman that I can take care of. I don’t think of sex any longer; I only think of how to make music.

    “My sex doll is a virgin. I named her Tontoh because she is a very beautiful woman. Now, I can have peace of mind and I can focus on my music. I have not had sex this year and I cannot remember the last time I had sex. I am not trying to paint a good picture of myself. If I want to have sex, I know where to go once I have my money.”

    The singer whose real name is Benjamin Ogwehi has been flaunting his doll on his Instagram page said he “got the sex doll because I became tired of women.

    “If I can spend N5m on a doll, I must have spent more on a lady and nothing came out of the relationship. I am not in a relationship at the moment but I was engaged last year. The outcome of the union was the major reason I invested N5m in a sex doll. I later found out that my two-year-old baby wasn’t mine. You can imagine how I felt when I got to know that I was not the biological father of the baby girl I was taking care of.”

     

  • Woman divorces husband for starving her sex for 2 years

    The five-year-old marriage between a 35-year-old trader, Bilikisu Azeez and her husband, Olusesi, was on Friday dissolved by an Igando Customary Court in Lagos on grounds of sex-starvation.

    Bilikisu had told the court that her husband, Olusesi, starved her of sex for more than two years, a development which, she said, had affected her health.

    “My husband has been starving me of sex since he married his youngest wife; he has turned me to an abandoned property.

    “I have been falling sick in and out of hospital, during my last visit to the hospital, I was told that it was because I have not had sex for long that is why I experience frequent sickness.”

    She also accused her husband of not caring for her and the only child of the marriage, saying “my husband does not take care of me, I feed and clothe myself.

    “He refused to enroll our only child, who is over four years old in school and has failed to pay his medical bills; I always run to my mother for the hospital bill.”

    Bilikisu, who also accused her husband of battery, said he had beaten her publicly which resulted in her fainting.

    According to her, the trouble started when her husband brought in a third wife.

    She continued: “There was joy, love and peace in the house until he came with another wife, who has been fighting me also.”

    She urged the court to dissolve the union so that she can move on with her life.

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    Olusesi, in his response to the allegations, accepted that he starved the woman of sex.

    “She once denied me of sex and since then I abandoned her.

    “Yes, I starved her of sex, it is tit for tat because there was a day I entered her room to sleep with her and she left the bed to sleep on the floor.

    “I made an attempt eight times to sleep with her, but she refused. So since that day, I just put her aside after all she is not the only wife I have,” he told the court.

    The 45-year-old building contractor also consented to the dissolution of the marriage, saying he too was no longer interested in the marriage.

    The court president, Mr Akin Akinniyi, while delivering the judgment said that it appeared that the estranged couple were tired of the marriage as all efforts to reconcile them had failed.

    “Since both parties consented to the dissolution of their marriage, this court has no choice than to dissolve the marriage.

    “The court hereby pronounces the marriage between Mrs Bilikisu Azeez and Mr Olusesi Azeez dissolved today.

    “Both of you henceforth cease to be husband and wife, each of you should go on his or her separate ways unmolested.

    “The court wishes both of you well in your future endeavour. Any squabble between both of you from now on shall be treated as criminal.

    “Any violation of this judgment will be regarded as contempt of court and will attract imprisonment without option of fine,” Akinniyi ruled.