Nigerian women take action as rape, assault cases surge during pandemic ...United Arab Emirates

Lagos: When Kehinde Osakede’s university closed due to COVID-19 last year, the visual arts student returned home to Lagos. A visit to a family friend nearby turned into a horrific ordeal. The friend began touching her, she said, and became violent when she asked him to stop. He then raped her, she said. “The guy was hitting me, beating me,” said Osakede, now 21, “The last notion I had was to commit suicide.” Reuters was not able to confirm her account independently. Osakede did not share the name of her alleged assailant and said she did not want to get involved in the legal case. Osakede is one of hundreds of women across Nigeria who have reported being raped or sexually assaulted in a sur

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