By RismadarVoice Media, December 9, 2025
Ogun State may be inching toward a full blown gender-based violence emergency as new government data reveals a staggering 502 cases of abuse recorded between January and November 2025; just (2) two perpetrators have been convicted.
The figures, released on Tuesday, December 9 by the Ogun State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Adijat Adeleye, exposes a system many critics say is failing survivors, emboldening abusers, and normalizing violence in Nigerian homes and communities.
A visibly concerned Adeleye described the data as “alarming, deeply troubling, and indicative of a worsening crisis affecting women, girls, and vulnerable persons.”
The Commissioner warned that the state is confronting not just physical and sexual violence, but a dangerous rise in digital abuse, a new frontier of exploitation made possible by technology.
The revelations came during a press briefing in Abeokuta, shortly after an advocacy walk led by Ogun First Lady Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun, marking the end of the 2025 16 Days of Activism Against gender-based violence.
Out of the 502 cases:
•120 were reported at Sexual Assault Referral Centres,
•The rest reached government desks through area offices and partner organisations.
With these numbers, Adeleye admitted that the state is “only scratching the surface,” stressing that countless women and children remain trapped in silence due to fear, stigma, family pressure, economic dependency, and threats from perpetrators.
“These figures reflect both the persistence of violence and the growing willingness of survivors to seek help due to improved reporting systems,” she said.
The offences cuts across:
• sexual assault
• domestic violence
• child molestation
• digital harassment
• intimate partner violence
• incest and child neglect
• physical assault
Despite this alarming spread, 28 cases are only just entering the courts, with the rest crawling through opaque, slow judicial processes that many argue amount to a second round of trauma for survivors.
Adeleye disclosed a disturbing spike in digital-related GBV, noting that cyberbullying, sextortion, impersonation, online grooming, and emotional blackmail now constitute a significant portion of reported abuse.
