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A Nigerian businessman based in Southern Asia, Kingsley Nshiodo has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for beating up his girlfriend and threatening to stab her after she refused to have sex with him last year.

Confirming his arrest, the District penal police officer Ly Rithy, disclosed that Nshiodo was arrested by police in the early hours of December 28 2015, in Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district after his girlfriend, 19-year-old waitress Chan Sreyneang contacted police complaining that her boyfriend had beaten and threatened to stab her after she had gone to visit him at the apartment they shared in Toul Kork village after a recent falling out.

According to the Judge Yen Saroreun, 34-year old Nshiodo have half of his sentence reduced but will be fined about $1, 000 to the state budget after being charged with an act of violence with aggravating circumstances under article 218, of the penal code.

He said: “The court convicted him to two years, but the term of his punishment is reduced to a year. The rest of his sentence was suspended. The court fines him 4 million riel [about $1, 000] to put toward the state budget.”

, my husband said I should bring money, I told him that I didn’t have money because I fried akara and yam, he would become angry and said that I would get tired of the house, then he packed all his property and left the house.”

Johnson, who hails from Abak area of Akwa Ibom State, further said that when she was in labour, friends and neighbours of her husband tried getting across to him by phone to come and take her to the hospital, but he refused, until one of the neighbours took her to Asokoro General Hospital, Abuja.

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She said that Asokoro General Hospital refused to take her in because she didn’t register with them, and that she was taken to another private hospital where she was also rejected.

“When I was in labour, people called him on phone to come and pick me, he refused, so our neighbours took me to Asokoro Hospital but I was not registered with them and they refused to accept me. Then they took me to another private hospital, where they rejected me again and we went to another hospital where I delivered.

“Throughout that period, I was calling my husband’s number but he switched off his phone. I delivered the twins by Cesarean Session (CS) and I lost a lot blood. I can’t feed them and I can’t pay the N150,000 hospital bill,” she added.

Tribune gathered that a NYSC member, identified as Onuoha Adenike signed undertaken to take the woman out of the hospital to raise her hospital bill.

British-Nigerian Hollywood actor David Oyelowo is ready to give back to his fatherland, Nigeria through a foundation he is funding alongside other celebrities to bring succor to marginalized females in Nigeria.

Oyelowo is giving back through a new foundation, the GEANCO Foundation, which is creating special scholarships for female victims of acts of terror and victims of gender inequality.

Speaking with Broadway World Nigeria’s Afam Onyema, the GEANCO Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, said: “Through these scholarships, we will bring fresh hope to Nigeria’s most precious and vulnerable souls. This is a powerful, heartwarming response to an urgent, challenging crisis.”

According to a statement shared by Yahoo, the foundation focuses mostly on the girls who escaped or were rescued from terrorist groups and have been put through psychological torture, which include isolation by their families and communities, disrupted education, and more.

Read excerpt of the statement as published on Yahoo:

GEANCO’s special scholarship will benefit this vulnerable group of girls, in addition to girls severely disadvantaged by Nigeria’s pervasive gender inequality. It is named in honor of acclaimed British-Nigerian actor David Oyelowo (Selma, A United Kingdom, Disney’s Queen of Katwe), a strong GEANCO supporter who encouraged the scholarship’s creation and plays an active role in its funding, administration and promotion. Last year, David received GEANCO’s “Global Promise” Award at the foundation’s annual Hollywood gala in recognition of his commitment to providing better educational opportunities for Nigeria’s youth.

Speaking on the foundation coming to Nigeria, Oyelowo said: “We cannot stand idly by while thousands of innocent girls remain under serious threat. With our help, these bright and resilient girls can blossom into Nigeria’s most inspiring leaders in government, education, business, entertainment, and so much more. The way to combat oppression and injustice is to be intentional in calling it out and then seeking to affect sustainable and long-term change. That is what these Leadership scholarships are all about. We seek to nurture a generation of strong female trailblazers whose positive impact will be felt across Nigeria and around the world.” 

Three scholarships will be awarded for the 2016-2017 school year. The number offered in subsequent years will depend on capacity and available funding. This year’s recipients will attend the Anglican Girls Grammar School (AGGS), a secondary school for students aged 10-15, in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city. AGGS is an academic center of excellence known for its emphasis on science and math. Future scholarship recipients will be placed at other high-achieving schools in Nigeria.

David and Jessica Oyelowo, Oprah Winfrey, Janus Funds, Participant Media and NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon provided the seed funding for this scholarship. GEANCO’s leadership actively seeks additional major gifts to increase the scholarship’s reach and impact.

Wahala dey oh! A community based organization of s*x workers, Ohotu Diamond Women Initiative (ODWI) has called on the Nigerian Police to stop abuse on sex workers. In a statement by the group, they lamented over what they termed the widely misunderstanding status about s*x work:

“The illegal status of s*x work in most countries, including Nigeria has not eradicated prosti-tution. Instead, criminalization has increased s*x workers vulnerability to human rights abuses and created fertile ground for police exploitation, especially of brothel and street-based s*x workers.

“S*x workers deserve the basic respect and protection from violence that each nation owes its citizens. But in many settings, police abuse of s*x workers receives scant public attention despite its entrenched global reality. Street and brothel-based female s*x workers, one of Lagos and Abuja most vulnerable populations, find themselves targeted for arrest by police, and they experience high levels of violence that go unpunished.


Current city and law enforcement policies towards s*x workers create a cycle of arrest that does not result in appropriate or long term solutions for the community or s*x workers,” the statement reads.

On the challenges s*x workers face, the Ashawo group said: “The challenge that we face as 50 participants from different L.G.As are almost similar. Many of us face violence and discrimination on a regular basis. Regardless of which State or tribe we are from, many of us have experienced being r*ped, verbally, emotionally and physically abused by police, clients and community members. 

“There is an unfair discrimination from service providers. S*x workers are not protected or defended by the law when they are exploited and abused. We demand that these violations stop immediately and decisive action is taken against perpetrators.” 

The statement further revealed how s*x workers suffer abuse from the Nigerian Police Officers.

“Thirty percent of s*x workers interviewed said that they had been threatened with violence by police officers, while 27% actually experienced violence at the hands of police. Reported incidents included officers physically grabbing and kicking, as well as beating them; one incident of r*pe; one woman was stalked by a police officer; and throwing food at one subject.

S*xual harassment included handling of body parts; giving women cigarettes in exchange for s*x; and police offering not to arrest s*x workers in exchange for s*xual services. 

"Several times Police have raided our hotels; beating, stealing and having s*x with us without protection." 

To curtail the abuses s*x workers suffer from Policemen, the Executive Director of Safe Haven Development Initiative, Ms Margaret Onah has criticised the method of which Policemen uses to extort money from s*x workers and abuse. 

According to Onah, the Nigerian Policemen are not mindful of the fundamental human rights that should be accorded to s*x workers. 

“It is dehumanising when Policemen abuses s*x workers the way they do. We are using this channel to voice out our pains in the course of survival. The government needs to do something about it. It is better if s*x workers are charged to court than naming them, harassing them, stealing their money, stealing their properties, and having s*x with them unprotected.” 

On what could be done to end the abuse by Policemen, Ms Margaret said: “the Police needs to re-strategise. The fact that s*x work is illegal doesn’t mean that they should kill anyone find doing the job. S*x workers are citizen of this country first of all, and they need to be respected like every other citizen.”

One of the Ashawo girls, Esther Eghosa said: “Time without numbers, the Policemen break our doors to start packing us like goats to the station. If you don’t have money to bail yourself, they will say they want to sleep with you unprotected which is very bad.

Eghosa, who is a s*x worker, further stress that, “As a woman in the brothel, we protect ourselves, we use condoms, but with the Policemen, you don’t have a say.”