Gender
Beyond The VAPP Act: How Widows Still Face Systemic Failures, Cultural Harm, Broken Promises (PART 1)
When the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015 (VAPP) was signed into law, many women’s rights advocates believed it would finally end dehumanising practices...
Gender
Diet of Despair: Nigerian Mothers Turn to Chicken Feed, Leftovers as Hunger Overwhelms Nation
Hunger is worsening in Nigeria at a frightening pace, so also its victim, malnutrition. No thanks to a sudden policy shift at the start...
Breaking News
Sex For Gratuity: Wives, Widows of Police Officers Protest Neglect at National Assembly
The wives of retired Nigerian police officers, joined by widows and former officers, took their grievances to the National Assembly on Tuesday, staging a...
Gender
Why the Next Governor of Lagos Must Be a Woman
By Princess Abiodun Islamiat OyefusiLagos is a city of greatness — a restless, ambitious, unstoppable megacity that beats with the energy of over twenty...
Gender
Pastor, 63, Arrested For Allegedly Raping Two Sisters, Arraigned, Remanded
The Enugu State Police Command has arraigned and secured the court-ordered remand of a 63-year-old pastor, Luke Eze, for the alleged rape of two...
Breaking News
‘He Said No One Can Arrest Him,’ Woman Cries Out as Police Spy Husband Turns Violent
When she first arrived in Lagos years ago, her dream was simple: to hustle, work hard, and build a better life. She started small,...
Breaking News
Laboratory MD Accused of Feeding Newborn Baby Sniper to Conceal Defilement of Minor In Abuja
By Betty AbahI received this troubling information this morning from Abuja. A certain Mr.
Jeffery Eboehi, who runs a medical lab office in the Kuduru,...
Breaking News
How Facebook, Misinformation, Legal Loopholes Throw Nigerian Women Into Surrogacy Ditch
By: Simbiat Bakare
When Temitope Afolabi realised her husband could get imprisoned due to a N48 million debt he incurred from a bad business deal,...
Breaking News
Sexual Violence Cases at Ikorodu Court Highlight Troubling Trend of Out-of-Court Resolutions
The integrity of the judicial process is under scrutiny at the Ikorodu Magistrate Court 1, where two high-profile sexual offence cases have been significantly...
Features
The amazons of cocoa farms (II)
In this concluding part of the stirring story of women cocoa farmers, a cocoa merchant reveals to Juliana Francis how these farmers contribute to...
Gender
The amazons of cocoa farms
Women brace the odds, lift cocoa farmingCocoa farming is being revolutionised in Ondo State. Behind the revolution are women, young and old, some are widows....
Gender
Kebbi Police Command Honours Officer In Charge Of Gender Based Violence As She Retires From Service
In it's efforts to ensuring the welfare of it's personnel, the Kebbi State Police Command under the able leadership of CP Bello M Sani...
Gender
Menstrual Hygiene Enlightenment For Teenage Girls
In a bid to promote healthy living and empower the girl child, Ikosi-Ejinrin Local Council Development Area on Wednesday, 17th September, 2025, organised a...
Gender
Olukoyede Sues for Greater Involvement of Women in Anti-Corruption Fight
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede, has tasked women across the country to show greater commitment to...
Gender
Kebbi Police Arrest Two Men For Defilement of 10 and 5 Years Old Girls
The Kebbi State Police Command has arrested two suspects for defilement of 10 years 10-year-old girlOn the 27th August, 2025, a 10-year-old girl, of ...
Breaking News
Police Inspector Detained for Alleged Defilement of 10-Year-Old Girl
A Police Inspector attached to the FCT Command’s Department of Operations has been detained for allegedly defiling a 10-year-old girl in the Mabushi area...
Gender
Lagos Police Charge 60-Year-Old Man with Rape
The Lagos State Police Command, Gender Unit, has arraigned one Ajayi Femi, 60, for allegedly raping a 24-year-old woman.
According to the Command, the case...
Gender
The Milky Way for Career-Minded Female Journalists in Nigeria’s Newsrooms
By Juliana FrancisMs. Ene Oshaba, an investigative journalist with Blueprint Newspaper, has become a reporter to watch, earning admiration not only for her fearless...
Breaking News
Inside Akure’s Hookup Economy: Young Commercial Sex Workers Narrate Experience
By Mary AgidiWhen Folake Adeola (not her real name) turned 21, she abandoned her dream of further education and turned to sex work in...
Gender
How underage girls are trafficked, exploited in Northwest Nigeria
By Aisha GamboAt just 10 years old, Ladidi Mudi (not real name) wakes at 5:00 a.m. daily. But unlike children her age who prepare for...
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