This is part of measures to check the alarming rate of sexual-related violence in learning institutions across the country.
The Federal Ministry of Justice and Education has recently launched the standard operating procedure for the prosecution of perpetrators of school-related gender-based violence cases in Nigeria which prohibited teachers to engage in sexual relationships with direct beneficiaries between 18 and 24.
It also barred teachers from holding, hugging, or touching students in an inappropriate or culturally insensitive way as well as staying in secluded areas alone with students.
The government in the Standard Operating Procedure also directed learning institutions to create a procedure for recruiting staff members that can detect paedophiles and other perpetrators of sexual offences against students/learners.