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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,…
Reproductive Rights and Health: A series of interviews with women living in low-income communities…
In 2016, Senator Biodun Christine Olujimi, proposed the incorporation and enforcement of certain provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women and the Protocol to the African…
Saving lives; The blood donor way
They wait, hoping someone somewhere will give them life, just by donating blood they are unable to afford or access. This is the story of people who have died for lack of blood and how Nigerians can change future stories.
10 Nigerian Women Pulling Their Weights In The Sciences
We live in a world that celebrates patriarchies and naturally places women under men, seeing men always as superior to women. Nigeria, like the rest of the continent and the world, by some sort of natural arrangement, has designed and…
Child Trafficking: Babies and Their Rescue: Experts Reveal Operational Strategies, Cases
“Give me my baby! Give me my baby! Give me my baby!!!” this was the pathetic cry of a poor young girl who had her four months baby taken from her by allegedly child traffickers.
But for the intervention of the men of the Immigration…
The fate of pregnant teenage girls rescued from illegal maternity homes
Recent reports from some communities in the South East indicate disturbing number of teenage pregnancies.
This development has led to the emergence of illegal maternity homes with the proprietors of such homes exploiting these young girls…
Female Genital Mutilation Thrives in Secrecy – Part Three: The Business
The Business of Female Genital Mutilation
By Olutosin Oladasu Abedowale
TRIGGER WARNING: Graphic descriptions of FGM included.
Ibadan - Western Nigeria
At the appointed date for another opportunity to practically 'prove' to the world that…
Female Genital Mutilation Thrives in Secrecy – Part Two
By Olutosin Oladasu Abedowale
TRIGGER WARNING
Ondo State – Western Nigeria
The journey into the secrecy shrouding Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) continued into Ondo State. My first point of stop was Akure, the state capital. I stopped at…