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Victims of Sexual and Gender-based Violence (SGBV) usually encounter all manner of difficulties in their quest for justice against their violators and abusers. In this report, CHIKA MEFOR-NWACHUKWU examines how the families of these victims…

There is an odd practice among the Becheve tribe in Cross River State whereby girls, sometimes as young as four years old, are used as collateral for loans their parents obtained from more illustrious kinsmen. Unfortunately, the innocent…

HumAngle's investigation exposes how police often frustrate rape cases in Nigeria, and also the plight of victims.

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), with the support of the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), is pleased to announce the 2021 cohort of female reporters for the fourth edition of the Report Women!…

The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) in collaboration with the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) opens application submission for its 2021 Report Women! Female Reporters Leadership Programme…

After three successive years of the ReportWomen! Female Reporters Leadership Programme, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ published an assessment report to document the impact of the programme among its…

In a report by the National Bureau of Statistics, women in Kwara state account for close to 50% of the state's population, yet during the 2019 general elections, out of the 528 candidates who jostled for the 35 elective posts in the state,…

With sufferers usually denied justice, sexual abuse of girls, women persists unhindered across the country, writes TESSY IGOMU At age five, Halima (not real name) walks with a slight limp. She ambles around her parent’s tiny living room…

Taking a journey into the lives of some women with cervical cancer, Omolabake Fasogbon in this investigation, reports that it is a not a good time for Nigerian women and girls given that actions and inactions of professionals and government…