BY FUNMI ADEYEMI Girls across 17 countries have come together to develop a memorandum for their voices to be heard in the political, digital and educational spaces. The girls spoke at the Launch of the Global Girls Summit 2022 Memorandum of Youth Participants which took place at the 2022 Global Girls’ Summit in Abuja on […]
In Nigeria, a common counsel to girls about to marry is the need to keep her family’s secrets secret. She is told to avoid bringing in a third party into her marital quarrels so that her home’s dirty linens would not be exposed to the outside world. Stripped of all diplomatic niceties, it simply means […]
Bauchi – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second largest number of child brides in the world, with 23 million girls and women married out as children in the country, thereby ending their educational strive. Mr Bhanu Pathak, Chief of Field Office (CFO) UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office, stated this in […]
Nigeria’s society is unequal and even more so when viewed through the gender prism. Available data regarding the wellbeing of our children – male and female – leave one with a sense of unease and fearful apprehension. There are trends which, if not arrested and reversed, spell doom for a future that already does not […]
A coalition group, “the civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All” (CSACEFA), Delta State Chapter, has raised concern over the alleged frequent rape and violence against Women/Girls across the state. While alleging 261 rape/violence cases against women/girls in the past eight months, the group state secretary, Mrs. Augusta Keneboh however sought effective media collaboration […]