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The bill for Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) was enacted in 2013 and passed by the House of Representatives (Nigeria) on May 14, 2015 and passed by the Senate of Nigeria May 14, 2015. [6] The two legislative houses completed all the processes and transmitted the bill for assent to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Domestic violence is prominent in Nigeria as in other parts of Africa. [1] [2] There is a deep cultural belief in Nigeria that it is socially acceptable to hit a woman as a disciplinary measure. [3] [4] Cases of Domestic violence are on the high and show no signs of reduction in Nigeria, regardless of age, tribe, religion, or even social status ...
Logo of the Vigilante Group of Nigeria. The Vigilante Group of Nigeria (VGN), established in 1870 and officially registered as an NGO in 1999 with Captain Abubakar Bakori Umar serving as the commandant general of Vigilante Group of Nigeria serves as a civil defense organization collaborating with the police to combat crime and maintain law and order.
Kito is a slang term used in Nigeria to refer to the act of extorting money or other valuables from gay men by threatening to expose or out them to their families, friends, or community. [1] It is a form of homophobic violence that is often used to control and intimidate gay men.
In June 2012, the Human Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria condemned the alleged killing of 16 members of MASSOB by security agencies in Anambra. In February 2013, MASSOB claimed that several corpses found floating in the Ezu River on the boundary of Enugu and Anambra States were those of its members previously arrested by the police. [ 11 ]
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Nigeria's government has sought to unify the various peoples and regions of Nigeria since the country's independence in 1960. [ 1 ] Nigerian nationalism has been negatively affected by multiple historical episodes of ethnic violence and repression of certain ethnic groups by the Nigerian government between the various peoples has resulted in ...
A map of Lagos Metropolitan Area, showing Lagos Island in the south east. Area boys (Yoruba: agbèrò) [1] are loosely organized gangs of street children, teenagers and youths, composed mostly of males, who operate on the streets of major cities in Nigeria, including Lagos, Ibadan, Onitsha, Aba, Umuahia, Akure, Ado-Ekiti and Enugu.