G100: Let our politicians be, by Tonnie Iredia
The popular belief in Nigeria today is that it was the emergence of one strong opposition political party that gave victory to the All Progressives Congress APC in the 2015 presidential election. Of course, whereas the coming together of many groups may have played a role in the outcome of the election, there is no […]
Re: Violence & helplines
There’s nothing as frightening and distressing as being helpless in the face of violence, most especially when your life is at risk. Most of the confidence that keeps the majority of the people going comes from knowing that when you’re in trouble, or have a problem, you have a reliable source of help at hand.
Through the ages
A life goes through many phases, we grow from the time we are born and pass through many things. Through the course of our life’s journey we evolve with the passage of time becoming different things to different people.
It is time to stand up for Ribadu
At the beginning of a venture, certain persons who show ample brightness sometimes end up badly thereby losing the accolades they had received.
The fundamental source of religious intolerance (1)
In simple terms, religious intolerance or fanaticism is the inability of an adherent of a particular religion to acknowledge, accommodate and accept the right of others to live by another faith different from his own.
Several aspects of the 1999 Constitution are injurious to women – Mma Odi
Ms. Mma Odi is the Executive Director for Baobab for Women’s Human Rights, a non-governmental organisation in the vanguard of promoting the rights of women in Nigeria and Africa. Baobab is the Secretariat for the Nigerian NGO-CEDAW Coalition, a coalition established in 1997 to give a voice to the issues of the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women(CEDAW) in Nigeria. Here, Mma Odi who is a veteran in gender activism, bares her mind on gender concerns in the 1999 Constitution proposed for review by the National Assembly. Hear her:
