By Funmi Ajumobi Former Executive Director, Kudirat Initiative for Democracy, KIND and CEO, Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Amy Oyekunle, speaks to WO on why the fight against female genital mutilation, FGM, and other sources of GBV cannot be stalled. How have we fared? The Agency that is supposed to enforce it is NAPTIP, however, they work […]

As LASG demolish 400 houses As homeless residents urge Sanwo-Olu to bring out culprits By Ebunoluwa Sessou About three aged women have reportedly died while teenagers and children have been displaced due to the demolition exercise carried out by the Lagos State Taskforce on Monday, February 8, 2021 in Oke-Egan Community, Kayetoro by Eleko junction, […]

By Victoria Ojeme The Federal Government on Monday said that the selection of Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) was the right choice. Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo in his speech delivered via zoom at the Special General Council Meeting of the organisation in Geneva, […]

By Ebunoluwa Sessou THE journey to the World Trade Organization, WTO, began with eight candidates vying for the daunting position, on June 20, 2020. These contenders were Britain’s first post-Brexit international trade Secretary, Liam Fox, former Saudi economy minister Mohammed al-Tuwaijri and Kenya’s former WTO General Council chair Amina Mohamed. Others were from Egypt, Mexico, […]

Stakeholders have called for the improvement of anti-sexual harassment policies in higher institutions of learning across the country, to effectively address the spate of sexual harassment.

  By Funmi Ajumobi As the world marks the annual International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, in the context of COVID-19, with the theme, ‘No Time for Global Inaction: Unite, Fund, and Act to End Female Genital Mutilation.’ the Nigerian government appears indifferent, while the unwholesome practice continues unabated. WO engages […]

By Ebunoluwa Sessou Justice Akon Ikpeme is the current Chief Judge in Cross Rivers State, Calabar. She assumed the position as a substantial Chief Judge on January 28, 2021. WO X-rays the incidences preceding her present position in this excerpt. January 9, 2020 Cross-Rivers State Governor, Prof. Ben Ayade wrote a letter to the State […]

By Victoria Ojeme The federal government has expressed dismay over the increasing number of Nigerian women migrating overseas for menial jobs saying it predisposes them to lots of danger. The feminisation of migration gives rise to specific problematic forms of migration, such as the commercialised migration of women and girls as domestic workers and caregivers, […]

Dismissed for getting pregnant out of wedlock She was aware of the rules — Ekiti CP It is unconstitutional — CSOs By Esther Onyegbula The unfortunate reality that the Nigerian woman is subjected to discriminatory laws and practices at every phase especially career-wise was re-emphasised recently when a policewoman Corporal Olajide Omotola of the Ekiti […]

By Funmi Ajumobi & Ebunoluwa Sessou Recently, the Nigerian social media were agog with the story of a love triangle involving some prominent members of the country’s financial sector; and while love triangles are not considered particularly extraordinary, paternity frauds which sometimes attend them are so considered. Men who had confidently given their names to their […]