 The understated government in partnership with Gender Mobile Initiative has described the rise in gender-based violence and the growing cases of sexual assaults and harassment in higher institutions of learning. Speaking of the signing of the partnership agreement in Akore, the understated capital, special adviser to understated governor, Olamide Falano said, the project was born out of the need to have active collaboration with civil society on the prevention of gender-based violence in the state. On our part, the executive director of Gender Mobile Initiative, Omo Omi Ogoro Timi, said the campus safety initiative has been adopted in universities across the country and that a partnership would allow the state government to adopt its model to address sexual-based violence. We want the very best for our state and I'm excited that this day has actually come for us to commence activities in accordance of our state response towards ending gender-based violence in understate. This project that we're signing on to today is actually born from a need for us to actually have active collaboration with civil society and active collaboration with partners across the board towards a more connected state response and towards this prevention of gender-based violence in the state. That sexual and gender-based violence, particularly sexual harassment, is on the rise and it's really important that we rise to the occasion to address these issues. In the last four years, Gender Mobile has worked with institutions of our learning essentially to address sexual harassment, adopting a tripartite approach of policy design, community-led bystander intervention, and also creative integration of technology to ensure that we are promoting institutional accountability, we are also fostering access to justice, we are promoting survivor-centered reporting, we are also seeing that we are able to generate data for improved policy and programming response. Of what is happening all over and the things we watch and unfortunately even what we see on the social media, so it goes beyond targeting the institution, it's also important for us to ensure that mosque churches, the believability of our religious leaders is very high. If Bababu, he comes out to say that if you beat your wife, you will go to hell. I cannot show you, some persons will be failed from beating their wives. One dream, what is happening in the suburb? What is happening in our villages? If we can have such things taking place in the city, what about the suburb? How are we handling what is happening in the suburb? So I want to please encourage us so that the security personnel will be able to do our job better by doing more of advocacy. I want to advise that we should create more awareness. Telling people, telling the women, telling the men what they are supposed to do and what they are not supposed to do. It's not that they don't know it, they know it but they refuse to do the right thing. When people refuse to do the right thing, there will be a lot of criminality in the society. News updates.