View on Zencastr Soyem Osakwe is a specialist in Global communications, campaigns and advocacy. In this episode, Soyem speaks passionately about her work using effective communications strategies to raise awareness and advocate against gender-based violence. If you are a journalist or content creator, if you work for an NGO or simply want to lend your voice…
In a world where men are termed as behaving like women when they choose to remain calm amidst disagreements and women are termed as behaving like men when they react violently, one may wonder if a certain mode of reaction is specially designed for men and another for women. As children, boys are trained to…
After 16-year-old Benard* was diagnosed with HIV, all he needed was meaningful engagement, counselling and proper medication to achieve viral load suppression and continue his normal life without being constantly down with sickness, but factors such as poor parental care, ignorance, non-adherence to a regimen, poor nutrition and poverty among other things deprived him of…
On Friday, September 9th, 2022, a 38-year-old Nigerian was reportedly arrested for sexually abusing his 14-year-old niece who was under his custody. This is similar to the experience of 1 in 5 girls and 1 in 13 boys who have been sexually exploited or abused before reaching the age of 18 globally according to UNICEF…
Earlier this year, 35-year-old Nnenaya Onu was reported to have lost her life to men alleged to be her cousins who beat her up, strip her naked, dismembered and burnt her alive in her father’s compound. Her only crime was demanding a share of her late father’s properties. News of her death which occurred on…
Earlier in January, Zainab Adams was shortlisted alongside 23 other female journalism students to attend a workshop on digital rights and gender-based violence reporting organised by a Non-Profit Organisation, Education as Vaccine (EVA) in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital. She didn’t know that the knowledge she would gain during the workshop will one day come in handy…
In May 2020, a 39-year-old Nigerian woman reportedly died of complications after giving birth inside a church located in Lagos State, Nigeria. This is only one out of several cases of maternal deaths in Nigeria resulting from complications during childbirth which could have been avoided if professional healthcare providers were readily available. According to a…
Amid the ongoing Cameroonian civil war which started as a low-scale insurgency in the Southern Cameroons leaving thousands of people killed and more than half a million displaced, a female journalist has set up a foundation to empower women and Internally Displaced Persons with relevant skills through capacity training among other things. A 2021 report…
Witnessing a seemingly peaceful gathering turn into chaos, people getting shot dead right before her eyes, sights of restless parents waiting for their abducted family members to return home, listening to agonising tales of traumatized victims tell their experiences, seeing emancipated underage children who have just been released by bandits or escaping being raped or…
With the rising cases of sexual assault, one Nigerian woman lawyer decided to come up with a mobile app to put this to a stop. Moved by her personal experience as well as that of her childhood best friend who was raped and compelled not to speak up for fear of stigmatization, Omowumi Ogunrotimi, a…
From Minna, a not-so-famous city in Niger State, Nigeria, the story of a young female journalist with a burning desire to make an impact in the world through her little means began and has since blossomed into full bloom. Justina Ashishana began her journalism career as an intern at The Nation newspaper in 2011 upon…
As days turn into months, months into years and years into decades, the clamour for equal participation of both male and female gender in all sectors continues to increase. This clamour is seen to be more rampant among women who are always seen playing the gender card on issues and situations where they do not…
