Three young women have accused a man of physically assaulting them during a night out at a nightclub in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, leaving one with a bloodied head, another with a broken tooth, and the third allegedly stripped and thrown down a staircase.
The incident, which reportedly occurred at the Black Box nightclub, has sparked outrage online after the women shared videos detailing their ordeal.
In one of the clips, the women said they had booked a table at the club to celebrate a friend’s birthday when the man confronted them, claiming they were recording him without consent.
“Now the only thing we did wrong is to go out as girls. That’s the only thing we did wrong. So is every girl in Nigeria a prostitute?” one of the girls said, showing visible injuries to her scalp, which she said were caused by a bottle allegedly smashed on her head during the altercation.
Another woman said they had paid to reserve a table and were seated when the man, accompanied by security personnel, forcefully occupied their space.
“He said if they born me well, I should sit in the seat I paid for,” she said.
She added, “This man and his friends started breaking bottles. Injured my friend, they broke her head. She was bleeding so badly. The other of my friend they broke her teeth. One of her teeth was like it had gone off.
“Me myself they pushed me downstairs. Stripped me off, stripped me naked. Like beating me mercilessly. As if I was one that stole something. All because he came with a MOPOL. He came with bodyguards or whatsoever.”
The third woman, visibly missing a front tooth in the video, called on human rights groups to intervene.
“They need to get those men. Because young girls these days can’t even go out and just be secured,” she said.
The women alleged that the man involved was a regular at the club and had previously been accused of similar behaviour.
In response, a man identifying himself as the founder of Black Box, with the TikTok username @datfairboy1, issued a video statement condemning the violence and describing the incident as “pathetic.”
“Nobody, no human being, has the right to inflict physical wounds or injury on anybody, especially when nobody was a threat. Over this issue, I think a lot of people already know my stand as a human being because this video is not a video I’m making based on as a company to put out. No, this is a personal video because it doesn’t make sense,” he said.
He added that he had visited the women in the hospital and also made a formal complaint to security operatives.
Reacting to the incident on Friday, the Rivers State Police Command said it had invited the club’s manager and the alleged suspect for investigation.
In a post on X, the command said, “Regarding the lady that was assaulted in the club. The DPO within that jurisdiction has expedited action by inviting the hotel manager and the alleged suspect to his office for immediate investigation. I would also like to use this medium to invite the victims involved to come forward and make their statements.”
As of press time, the alleged assailant had not publicly responded to the accusations.
