The Lagos state government in Nigeria has commenced publishing the details of convicted sex offenders in the state, including names and pictures according to local media quoting an official.
It is part of a crack down on domestic abuse and gender based violence, under provisions given by section 42 of the Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency Law.
“This measure is one amongst many deployed by the state government to end the culture of impunity and also serve as a deterrence to other sex offenders,” Nigeria’s The Guardian paper quote
d the Executive Secretary of Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), Mrs. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, as saying.
Letters have also been issued to local governments where the sex offenders used to live, Mrs Vivour-Adeniyi added.
In 2021, the Lagos State Government said it had recorded more than 10,000 cases of domestic abuse and sexual violence in the previous two years.
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Nigerian fleeing Ukraine with infant expected home
A group of 122 Nigerian nationals, including a parent with an infant, is expected to return home on Friday after fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.
The group will arrive in Abuja from the Polish capital, Warsaw, where they had sought safety. The foreign ministry said another group would be evacuated from the Hungarian capital, Budapest on Saturday.
More than a thousand Nigerians have already been evacuated but several thousand more, mostly students, are still thought to be stuck in the country.
In a statement, the ministry advised Nigerians fleeing Ukraine to contact the Nigerian embassy in Hungary.
A total of 1,076 Nigerians living in Ukraine have been evacuated to the country. The government hopes to evacuate 5,000 citizens fleeing the war.
Many of them have crossed into the neighbouring countries of Romania, Poland and Hungary from where they will be ferried back home.
The Russia – Ukrainian conflict is in its second week and about two million people are reported to have fled Ukraine for neighbouring countries.
Source: BBC
