The peak of the pandemic coupled with the stay at home policy and lock down of businesses in Nigeria witnessed an astronomical rise in cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence especially against women and girls . The rise in cases of violence against women and girls is evidenced in various reported incidents of violence...

Men are liars when they do not acknowledge that after spending all their lives trying (in weird and abusive ways sometimes) to protect their women from other men, that men aren't a collection of fears to women. It is unfair and insensitive to then belittle the fear from where the generalization comes from.

My name is Omekedo Oby. I am a young black writer. I own my blog and the link above belongs to me. I have publications related to feminism, awareness of sexual abuse, and young women in general. I am also a freelance writer and I am open to taking new jobs.

Nigeria ranks one of the countries with lowest in index global gender equality and with the highest number of domestic violence record; female genital mutilations and other harmful practices which have many over-bearing influences on female gender because of factors such as; religious doctrines, dogmas, legal restraint, cultural ideologies and low level of education of...

The incidence of rape is not a new phenomenon and it usually involves infants, adolescent girls or younger women as victims. However, some Nigerian national dailies (Premium Times 2013, Vanguard, 2011; 2012) recently reported recurring incidence of rape of older women which seems to be a pointer to increasing Prevalence of elderly abuse, violence on...