Report Women

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

By Temi Bamgbose The concluding part of the report reveals the folly of a nation without any social security system to prevent its people, most especially the senior citizens, from unforeseen eventualities. It also examines the various…

By Temi Bamgbose In the second part of the report, the reporters examined the type of help this category of people require. They observed the organisation among the people, and one of the challenges that may lead to a life of destitution.…