It is not meant for women So when are you getting married? Don’t you know you are a woman? Let boys be boys I have your type at home! Act like a lady Conversations around women’s rights in Nigerian has been on the rise. Movements reclaiming women’s ownership of their own bodies like the #YabaMarketMarch…

Equal rights for women’ is perhaps one phrase that is most misunderstood in many parts of the world. The misunderstanding of this concept transcends peoples, race, religion, gender, creed or level of education.  ‘Equal rights, not equality with men’, is how this concept has constantly been explained to those who believed that the promoters of…

In an era marked by a significant shift in the traditional concept of womanhood and an increasing presence of women in medicine, law and business, a growing concern that there are few women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), should attract the attention of authorities in any jurisdictions. In this regard, as the issue…

A statement by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on the World Cancer Day, Monday 4th February revealed that nine out of ten women who die from cervical cancer are from poor countries, and that if action is not taken, deaths arising from the disease will increase by almost 50 per cent by 2040. The most…

Nestle has launched an ambitious Gender Balance Acceleration Plan “From Aspiration to Action” as part of its activities to highlight International Women’s Day 2019. The world’s largest food and beverage company believes that a gender balanced workforce makes business sense as it helps to boost innovation and performance, which as a result, better serves the…

Today, Google changes their avatar to inspirational quotes from women as the world is immersed in confetti or protest posters. International Women’s Day, founded by the UN in 1975 in the past years due to the rise of feminism and social movements has become one of the most talked about events of the year. Every…

A report by UNICEF report titled `The State of the World’s Children 2017′ revealed Nigeria ranks 11th with 43% among the 20 countries in the world with the highest prevalence of child. Other African countries featured on the list include the Central African Republic 68%, Chad 67%, Burkina Faso 52%, and Mali 52%, South Sudan…

A large number of people throng the tapered streets of the market; cubicle-sized stalls are cluttered with colourful and chaotic displays of clothes, shoes, sneakers, lingerie amongst other fairly used products of different variations. Many customers have to walk the breadth and length of different plazas while jostling for space in the cut-and-thrust of the…

Boys like blue, girls like pink. Boys like cars, girls like dolls. Boys like adventure, action and explosions. Girls like being pretty, fantasy and housekeeping. Boys grow up to be doctors, professors, CEOs and leaders. Girls grow up to be nurses, children’s school teachers, secretaries and housewives. See a trend? Most psychologists do. In 2015,…

The Labour Force Statistics released by the National Bureau of Statistics in December 2018 was trailed by mixed reactions, sparking heated debates on social media with many dismissing the reports as ‘fictitious’, ‘buffed up’ and ‘tainted’. The Labour Statistics Report, which reveals Nigeria’s unemployment and underemployment figures between 2017 (Q4) and 2018 (Q 1 -…

Financial inclusion is progressively gaining momentum globally, however, the gains are yet to even up. The 2017 World Bank Global Findex Database report on financial inclusion reveals that over 60 million Nigerians do not have bank accounts. The report ‘The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution’ employed data from a…

The most powerful scene in Genevieve Nnaji’s directorial debut, Lionheart, takes place between Nnaji’s Adaeze and her uncle, Godwill. They’re sitting in the back of a car and Adaeze stares at her uncle, anxiety written into every feature and says: “We’re supposed to do this together.” Her uncle takes her hand and responds: “You need…