Inspite of almost sounding a cliché, violence against women -VAW-has unabatedly gained prominence with an estimated one in five women round the world suffering from one form of abuse or the other.

Bako, 15, was caught between two articulated vehicles, running barefoot on the cracked highway along Ibadan expressway, as he tried to receive money for the snacks he sold to a moving motorist. Luck ran out on him as he got stuck between two vehicles, knocked down, lifeless. Help came from his co-hawkers and a Samaritan.

Mrs Grace Ketefe, Deputy Director, Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre, WARDC, in this interview, says, government has not been able to provide a home for children whose rights are violated.

DR. Femi Aribisala’s recent article “The beginning of the end of the Bola Tinubu Dynasty” should not have appeared in The Vanguard or in any newspaper for that matter. What this piece represented was a contribution to fiction writing, not responsible journalism.

Femi Aribisala sounds like Nigeria’s Salman Rushdie. It seems Mr Aribisala is having endless sleepless nights over the person of Bola Tinubu and indeed the emergence of APC as another big political party in Nigeria. I believe that by standing on the side of the voiceless since 1999 till date, the duo of Buhari, Tinubu and other leaders of APC deserve the accolade of well-meaning Nigerians —George Kalu