Period poverty: A challenge for Africa
More than 800 million girls and women menstruate daily around the world. Yet, all thiese while, girls are facing unnecessary adversity dureing mesnturation times. Yet, no one is talking about…
Dr. Hadiza Balarabe- First in line
Today, Nigeria stepped into another 4 years democratic dispensation of the same people at the helm of affairs (it is always hard to defeat an incumbent- NO). Except for some…
FCDA and its war on women – Jibril Ibrahim
There is an open war against women in Abuja. And the justification is a moral crusade against so-called prostitutes but not their male customers who are apparently considered the moral…
Women; complex creatures – men
The eternal cry of men: “I don’t understand women!” Women are mysterious to men: they do not understand why we take so long to dress; the number of shoes we…
Saluting the women in my life
Women are the reason for life, undermine women; you suffer damnation. Women rule the world and there is no doubt about that. Women make the world and can mar it.…
A celebration of womanhood
A celebration of womanhood
Only a woman can be a woman. You can change sex and take the hormones and wear the wig, you can't stand the heat of the hormones ..... The world…
Right to Education
Educating the Girl Child: Ocholi O. Ibilola
By now, every one knows that education is a determinant in building up of tomorrow's leaders for a brighter future. Yet, it still seem ollusive for the Nigerian child; especially…
Long past its time: Ocholi O. Ibilola
As long as it exists, child marriage will stand the way of gender equality. Its driven by socio-cultural beliefs that accord girls little value, we need extensive legal and social …
Culpability in Silence: Tawakalit Kareem
Silence- Is the magic wand that we wave in the hope that what has been done can be undone. The inaction we exhibit to somehow dull the deafening noise that…
#Rant1373: Fix yourself Woman- Joy Isi-Bewaji
I’ve heard of things they do to juniors in same-sex schools. Let’s take all-girls’ School, for instance. So you are running away from Patriarchy, you want your daughters to experience…
We; are enough
There are people whose expectations we will never meet. There are people whose moods and emotions we can not keep up with. There are people whose frames of the world…
Oh Mother!
Our mothers, just like their mothers' mothers lovingly place in our hands an invaluable gem as we embark on our journey into matrimony. They place in our hands their gem…
Born Female and Ibo- Ella Umeh-Ezeadilieje
Being born female and Igbo is both a blessing and a curse. Our society holds the girl child to moral standards that even the angels will aspire to....and we are…
We; are Ochanya of Ugbokolo
‘His voice husky and groggy from too much alcohol, he grabbed my arm fiercely and pulled me to himself whispering into my ear ‘I love you, I will be your…
Dear Girl Child
''12th October is celebrated as the Day of the Girl Child. But to me, everyday is for the Girl Child. I was once her, some part of me is still…
A new Vision of Women’s liberation
My own vision is that the coming age will be the age of the woman. Man has tried for five thousand years and has failed. Now a chance has…
Treating Cancer with Panadol
Yes, we are a problem-ridden society; our problems albeit challenges are just too many to count. I have reached a place in my life where I have come to understand…
Lets talk about feminism
Yes, you heard me, lets talk about feminism; because we need to; because we have to whether we like it or not. There is one thing that I wish everyone…
Women's Strike for Peace-And Equality, Women's Strike for Equality, Fifth Avenue, New York, New York, August 26, 1970. (Photo by Eugene Gordon/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images)
My Choice
“Anything is to be preferred or endured rather than marrying without Affection.” Jane Austen In the culture where I was born, women were thought only to be marriage material. Some…
Pains of being Girl/Woman
We are in the twentieth century, but there are still many societies and people who feel saddened at the birth of a girl child; yet the woman plays the pivotal…
