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...

Gender-based Violence Overall, 11.9 percent of female respondents had ever experienced some form of sexual violence (Table 9). There was no significant difference between reported sexual violence by geographic location (data not shown). About 9.9 percent of females reported someone had tried to force them to have sex while 7.8 percent had actually been raped...

Online gender-based violence has been recognized as a challenge to achieve gender equality for women. In the past few decades, information and communication technologies (ICT) have provided society with many new communication opportunities. For example, people can communicate in real-time with others in different countries using various technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP),...