Report Women

Female Reporters’ Leadership Fellowship (A leadership training and mentorship programme) Tentative training dates: Tuesday 2 to Friday 5 July 2019 The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites…

Female reporters were equipped to take leadership roles in the newsroom, at the 2018 edition of the Report Women! Female Reporters’ Leadership Programme (FRLP) held from Monday, 1st October to Thursday, 4th October 2018 in Lagos. The…

Female Journalists Leadership Fellowship (A leadership training and mentorship programme) Tentative Training dates: Monday 1 to Saturday 6 October 2018 The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) invites…

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…

“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 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…

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…

By Olutosin Oladasu Abedowale TRIGGER WARNING: the following article describes female genital mutilation and male circumcision in detail. Oyo State – Western Nigeria We sat on a long bench amongst Baba Oloola’s clients-in-waiting. This is…

By Ojoma Akor In recent years there has been increased incidences of sexual violence against women and girls, particularly rape and child sexual abuse, in Nigeria.  The attacks occur in the streets, in schools and in the work place, and…