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...

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.

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),...

As a young girl growing up in the Northern part of Nigeria, I was bold among family and friends but shy to strangers. Life begun for me in secondary school when I joined the Red Cross Society and was trained as a Home Nurse. The experience was exciting, and I discovered I enjoyed being of help...

    We cry out against this inhumane ordeal that has befallen  us Some of Our men no longer defend and protect us from evil Rather they have the culprit themselves What crime have we committed against humanity to deserve such inhumane act? What crime have we committed for being Women and Girls? What crime...