The federal government has conducted a gap analysis on all the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) laws in the states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The government through the ...

As the 2023 general elections draw closer, the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) said it is mobilising its personnel to enforce the relevant sections of the ...

In May 2020, Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old microbiology student at the University of Benin went to her local church to study in what she thought was a safe environment. Tragically, she was ...

Critical stakeholders in Kogi State have been trained on awareness creation and implementation of the Kogi State Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Law (VAPP) 2022. The workshop was organised by ...

Worried by the high cases of public and private violence across the state, the International Federation of Women Lawyers, (FIDA) have appealed to the Kogi State Government to make available to the ...

Although variable annuity pension plan (VAPP) designs have been permissible for decades, they have not yet seen widespread adoption—particularly in the Taft-Hartley multiemployer plan space. Recently, ...

Despite the Violence Against Persons Prohibition Act, advocacies, campaigns and policies geared towards eliminating or reducing to the barest minimum cases of Sexual and Gender-based Violence, recent ...

An international civil society organisation, International Human Rights Observatory Africa, has expressed concern over the delay by some state governments to domesticate the Violence Against Persons ...

Jos – Leaders of Faith and Culture in Plateau State have advocated intensive awareness, women inclusion, intensive pre-marital counselling, political will and continued advocacy, among other things to ...

ABUJA – A women’s rights group, operating under the aegis of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre,WARDC, has hailed the Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, for signing the ...

Abuja — For the effective implementation of the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) Act, the federal government, particularly the Ministry of Women Affairs and the National Agency for the ...