The Vice Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has issued a statement in reaction to a leaked audio wherein a professor in the institution is heard demanding sex from a female student to help her pass her examination. Richard Akindele, a Professor in the Department of Accounting at the university, had his name repeatedly mentioned […]
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A state lawmaker in Kentucky, U.S., Rep. Dan Johnson, has committed suicide after report emerged that he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17. Reports say the 57-year-old lawmaker, a preacher and a Republican, shot himself on a bridge in Mt. Washington, southeast of Louisville. His body turned up on a riverbank near the […]
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A former U.S. soccer star Hope Solo has accused former FIFA President Sepp Blatter of sexually assaulting her in 2013 during the Ballon d’Or awards ceremony. “Sepp Blatter grabbed my ass, it was a few years ago at the Ballon d’Or ceremony just before I got on stage,” Solo said. She said that sexual harassment […]
Continue ReadingInvestigations of the sexual misconduct allegations against three members of House of Representatives was stalled on Thursday due to failure of U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle, to honour the invitation of the Committee set up to investigate the allegations. The House of Representatives had set up a committee headed by Nicholas Ossai, to investigate […]
Continue ReadingMember representing Benue Gwer east/Gwer west in the house of representatives, Mark Gbillah, has requested the US to produce CCTV footage to support claims that he was involved in sexual misconduct while in United States on a US visitor programme in April 2016. James Entwistle, the US ambassador to Nigeria, had written to Speaker Yakubu Dogara […]
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