Izzy Dix (pictured above), a gifted pupil who had ambitions to go to Oxford University,
took her own life after complaining she could no longer cope with being
bullied, both at school and online.
‘Izzy would come home and sob in my
arms" Her mother Gabbi said "They called her “ugly”, “freak”, “frigid”.
If she put her hands up
in class, she’d be labelled a “swot” and they’d snigger at her, or make
crude comments. They’d exclude her from events, tell her to go home,
she wasn’t wanted. They’d turn their backs on her, literally. When
she did come home, it didn’t stop, because it doesn’t, these days. They
name-called her by text, then online. She’d log onto Facebook and get
abuse. Then onto that awful site Ask.fm and be subjected to filth."
A Benin High Court has awarded Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, ₦25million as damages in a libel suit he instituted against the publishers of News of the People, a soft sell weekly magazine.
Governor Oshiomhole had dragged the soft sell weekly magazine to court demanding N250million as damages over their report with the headline:
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