NDA Gets Female Best Graduating Cadet.
Her name is Uchechi Promise Echefu. She recently graduated cadet from the Nigeria Defence Academy Kaduna (NDA). Uchechi emerged the best graduating cadet with a First Class Honours in Computer…
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Sexual Assault Referral Centers
Below is a list of sexual assault referral centers in Nigeria. Sexual assault includes rape, molestation, sexual harassment, pedophilia, SGBV, and other forms of child violation. 1.The Mirabel Centre Lagos…
Culture of silence an anathema to the fight against SBV
The Salama Sexual Assault Referral Centre is a sexual assualt referral centre established to serve as a place where victims of rape and gender base violence get free medical, legal…
Sheroes Rising Webinar Series II
Parental Alienation is a phenomenon that is prevalent in our societies yet invisible and unknown even by those who are guilty of it. It is one of the most toxic…
Sheroes Rising Webinar Series: Sending a Boy to do a Man’s Job.
In commemoration of the upcoming International Women's Day Celebration, Sheroes Rising Initiative for Development, the mother organisation of sheroes.ng publication is holding its first webinar series on March 8th 2021.…
Idu Train station named
In continuation of the present administration’s practice of naming some major railway stations and its facilities in the country after some deserving Nigerian citizens, the Federal Government has named the…
Nigerian’s Ngozi Okonjo Iweala makes history
Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has emerged the first female and African to head the World Trade Organisation. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is a Nigerian two time Minister of Finance who has…
Yobe University gets first Female Vice Chancellor
The Governing Council of Federal University, Gashua in Yobe state has approved the appointment of Professor Maimuna Waziri as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University. This was the outcome of…
Sheroes Rising partners with Kaduna Bookathon
” When children are exposed to books they start to read better. the number of books in the home is a more significant predictor of a child’s reading attainment than…
Feminists Speak About Struggling for Voices in an Age of Patriarchy
“For any society to develop and compete with global development, gender inequality must be bridged, gender-based violence must be stopped, and girl child education must be given a…
From the road side to the classroom: Aisha’s journey
On 15th August 2020 when schools were all still closed due to Covid-19 pandemic, a photo of Aisha reading a storybook on the roadside while still fraying Awara (tofu) for…
The price of seeking for knowledge
Fatima is a disabled Class Two Pupil of Dan Shayi Primary School in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano state. Even the scorching sun will descend upon her mercilessly,…
Kano Women demands Mental Health Centres Not Psychiatric Hospitals
Dr Amina Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has called for the establishment of mental health centres instead of psychiatric hospitals in Kano state. This she said will go a long way in…
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Rape: Grandfather and Gang
70-year-old man, Hunsu Sunday has defiled and impregnated his own granddaughter in Ogun State. The matter was reported to the Ogun State Police Command by a relative of the victim,…
Favour Okechukwu: One of many Girls
Favour Okechuku was reported to have been gang-raped to death in Ejigbo area of Lagos on 4th October 2020. Favour was an 11-year-old Junior Secondary School year 3 student who…
Tuesday Quote: Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
I ask no favour for my sex. All I ask for our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks. -Ruth Bader-Ginsburg
Dr. Priye Iyalla Amadi and the NIS
Until some few years back, married Nigerian women were required to have a letter of consent from their husbands before they could be issued an international Nigerian passport, but Dr…
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Save-our-souls- Gaining traction
It is said that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, that was exactly how this journey started, the journey to save the souls of women…
THE VIOLENCE AGAINST PERSONS PROHIBITION ACTS.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION The Violence Against persons (prohibition) Act (VAPP) was passed into law in May 2015. The Act was a result of agitations for the protection of persons against the…
The Violence Against Persons Act (VAAP Act)
The recent surge in rape, femicide, and domestic violence have necessitated a call to action by concerned individuals and stakeholders all over the country. It is in this regard that…
