•Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State A non-profit advocacy organisation, Tilova for Africa (TFA), has condemned the brutal flogging of a three-year-old pupil by her teacher at a private school in Enugu, describing it as a disturbing reflection of poor oversight in Nigeria’s private education sector. The United States-based organisation said the...
The Baale of Yale Camp, in Bolorunduro, Idanre Local Government Area of Ondo State, Ojo Olomolekulo, has been arraigned before an Akure Magistrate Court for flogging and brutalising villagers who refused to pay toll fee. Ojo was arraigned with two accomplices, Isaac Oloyede and Kehinde Tope, reports The Nation. They were alleged to have flogge...
•A teacher and students in classroom Lagos State Government say it still does not tolerate corporal punishment in public schools and has upheld counselling as an effective correctional measure. The state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Mr Jamiu Alli-Balogun, made this known in an interview with our correspondent yesterday. Alli...
•Igbo masquerades The Igbo-Etiti Local Government in Enugu State has vowed to arrest and prosecute any masquerade caught flogging or molesting women and girls in the area. The council chairman, Dr. Eric Odo disclosed this today during a one-day campaign on the eradication of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in the council headquarters, ...
A Lagos Magistrate Court sitting in the Ogba area, has ordered the remand of the Proprietress of Cradle of Wisdom School, Igando, Clifford Ikpikpini and her two children at the Kirikiri Correctional Center, over alleged torture and inhuman treatment of a 10-year-old pupil of the school. Magistrate Bola Osunsanmi ordered the remand of the trio ...
The primary school teacher, who flogged her eight-year old pupil to death at Landmark International School Mgbakwu, Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State has been remanded in a Correctional Centre. The suspect, Mrs Faith Nwoye, was remanded after hearing of the matter in a Special Court handling women and children related matters i...
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