It’s still a man’s world – Joachim MacEbong
One of the most important things I read this year was Anne Marie-Slaughter’s essay titled ‘Why women still can’t have it all’, in which she was brutally honest about the[…]
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Temie Giwa It is hard to be a woman in today’s world. Women’s right to choose the size of their family that has been long taken for granted is being[…]
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AEPB: From street cleaning to morality policing – Alkasim Abdulkadir
By Alkasim Abdulkadir. Abuja based actress and socialite Dorothy Njamanze didn’t bargain for the nightmarish experience she recently suffered at the hands of Abuja Environmental Protection Board AEPB, she had[…]
Gender-based Violence in Nigeria #16Days – A case for the criminalization of marital/spousal rape
In the past three days I have had cause to be scared for Nigerian women. I had long online debates with at least 30 young Nigerian (married and unmarried) men[…]
Gendered Violence in Nigeria #16Days – Sokari Ekine
In the early hours of the morning of the 20th November, 1999, 27 trucks carrying over 2000 soldiers plus 4 armored personnel carriers mounted with machine guns drove into Odi[…]
16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence in Nigeria
Gender issues, like all other areas in desperate need of attention, are largely ignored in Nigeria, especially among youth. Tis bifurcation between youth issues and gender issues is an unnecessary[…]
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Violence At Home | 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence
By Oyedeji Aderemi Permit me this time around to talk about a patient who walked into my consulting room to seek medical assistance recently. A bright Thursday morning, sallah was[…]