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Nigerian Women Lead In Agriculture
By Emmanuel Osodi
Here is the pictorial story of Nigerian rural women in agriculture, especially in Ondo and Delta states
The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) recently gave a grant for a project to investigate and…
Scarred For Life
By Abiose Adelaja Adams
The cutting of the total or part of a woman’s external genitals continues in most parts of Nigeria despite legislations against Female Genital Mutilation. Abiose Adelaja Adams reports on the uphill task of stopping…
Culture Versus The Girl Child
By Abiose Adelaja Adams
Shao town in a Kwara State is a tourist site known for its annual mass wedding festival, but little is said or known about the children among the scores of young women married off at a single event.
During a recent…
Human Trafficking: The Burkina Faso Ring
Simon Ateba/just back from Ouagadougou
A trip to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, unravels the booming human trafficking business in the West African country
It was 27 December, 2014, and we were ten in a rickety…
In Rivers, women are married to their husbands even in death
By Perez Brisibe
According to Chapter 220, section 15 of the Matrimonial Cause Act of the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990, death is one factor that leads to the dissolution of marriage if there is a pursuant for such dissolution.…
Insecurity keeps nomad kids from school
Their ordeal is not as documented as that of thousands of people killed or forced from their homes by Boko Haram insurgents. Yet, across the nation, especially in the North, children of migrant folks are finding it increasingly difficult to…
Disinheritance of women and girls in Anambra State.
The experience of women and girls in Anambra State is what many described as double-edged. Apart from many not being entitled to their father’s property especially landed ones, they suffer the same fate in their husband’s place. This story…
Rapists on rampage: Shocking stories of how minors have become endangered (2)
If recent reports are anything to go by, these are indeed strange times, especially in a country where there is an upsurge in girl-children being abused and robbed of their innocence by randy men who have become specialists in taking…
Drop out of school girls
Education is often said to be key to positive change and development in a society.
However, at a time when efforts are made to ensure education of every child, especially the girl child, the people of Ekerigwe in Ndiagu Ishieke Autonomous…