Day: October 23, 2024
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Agriculture
Jigawa Female Farmers Face Gender Discrimination, Land Encroachment, and Limited Resources
Ramatu Dahiru is a smallholder farmer who faces challenges as a woman farmer in Jigawa state. She annually cultivates acres of land growing millet, sorghum, groundnut, beans, and other cash crops. Last year, a neighbour…
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Mainstream
Teacher Gbolahan Osinusi rapes student, forces the minor to abort
A 42-year-old teacher, Gbolahan Osinusi, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for raping a girl in the Ketu-Epe area of Lagos State. Gbolahan, who also acted as the survivor’s guardian, reportedly began…
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Featured
Beauty practices and the theft of personhood in women
Beauty as an ideal for women to aspire to is one of the apparently normal but quite damaging practices in our society today. It seems harmless because it is one concept whose effects are not…
