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Life after insurgency for victims especially the girls and women
The story takes a look at the hardships and traumas of the Widows and their children and no homes to go back to.
WSCIJ-FRLP fellows lead the way for other women
Aimed at empowering female reporters with the skills, finesse, support and tools to take bold steps that will help position them for the highest leadership roles in their media houses, the Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) is…
Females taking the lead at 40,000ft above sea level
While she was walking to the podium to receive her award as one of the Top 100 African Women Travel Personalities at the 2017 Akwaaba Travel Market in Lagos, her demeanour depicted a beauty queen and threw all eyes at her direction.…
Agonies of female gentlemen of the press
Apart from the usual hazards of the profession which all journalists face, Faith Yahaya highlights peculiar challenges, especially sexual harassment, which female journalists cope with on the job.
Until she got married and later…
INVESTIGATION: In search for justice, shoddy prosecution frustrates Nigeria’s child rape victims
Thirteen-year-old Chidinma recalls the day she walked behind her school building in Dutse Alhaji, a suburb of Abuja, to relieve herself. With no decent latrine, it was nothing unusual for female pupils to urinate under the cover of…
APC not gender friendly
Rt Hon Elizabeth Onyene Ative is a member representing Onwode constituency in the Edo state House of Assembly. A former Speaker, Deputy Speaker and Former Chief Whip of the Assembly, she was also one-time President of the National Youth…
More female SUG presidents ‘ll emerge — Amina Yahaya
Amina Yahaya is the first female Students’ Union Government (SUG) of the Usumanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto and second in Northern Nigeria after 30 years. In this chat with ENE OSANG she expressed disappointment over female…
Women in government: Still a long way to go
The number of women representatives, both in appointive and elective positions, at the federal, state and local government levels curiously declined in the present dispensation, ENE OSANG, recently took up Hon Nkoyo Toyo representing…
Reproductive Health and Rights: A series of interview with women living in low-income…
After a lot of outcry, both on social media and in traditional news outlets, by feminists and human rights activists about the manner in which the proposed #GEO Bill was thrown off the floor of the National Assembly, the senate president,…