{"id":78186,"date":"2025-11-05T23:16:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78186"},"modified":"2025-11-05T23:16:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T23:16:55","slug":"nass-approves-14-year-jail-term-for-lecturers-guilty-of-sexual-harassment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/05\/nass-approves-14-year-jail-term-for-lecturers-guilty-of-sexual-harassment\/","title":{"rendered":"NASS Approves 14-Year Jail Term for Lecturers Guilty of Sexual Harassment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly has passed the Sexual Harassment of Students (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2025, prescribing a jail term of five to fourteen years without the option of fine for lecturers or academic staff convicted of sexually harassing students.<\/p>\n<p>The bill defines sexual harassment to include coercion, sexual advances, unwanted touching, suggestive messages, or any act that creates a hostile academic environment.<\/p>\n<p>It also bars offenders from using a student\u2019s consent as a defence unless both are legally married.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation mandates all tertiary institutions to establish Independent Sexual Harassment Prohibition Committees and empowers victims or their representatives to report cases to the police, the Attorney General, or the institution.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which aims to protect students and curb abuse of authority in Nigerian campuses, now awaits presidential assent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The National Assembly has passed the Sexual Harassment of Students (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2025, prescribing a jail term of five to fourteen years without the option of fine for lecturers or academic staff convicted of sexually harassing students. The bill defines sexual harassment to include coercion, sexual advances, unwanted touching, suggestive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":78187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78188,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78186\/revisions\/78188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}