Month: January 2025
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Sports
Bukola Fakunle: From Deafness to Defiance, a Feminist Voice for Disability and Gender Rights
Our featured champion comes with an amiable and disagreeable personality as it gets. Bukola Fakunle (alias MFE) is a local legend of sorts within the Nigerian Deaf community – a strong feminist voice. She holds…
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On Women
FIJ reveals Ayomide Adeleye not Remanded in Prison
Ayomide Idowu, a 200 Level Philosophy student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, who confessed in September 2024 to killing Christianah Idowu, his friend and 300 Level student of the Federal University of Agriculture,…
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Misogyny
Terrorism Continues: Taliban Bans Women from Carpet Weaving Industry
In another blow to women’s rights and livelihoods, the Taliban has imposed a ban on women working in the carpet weaving industry in Nangarhar Province. The ban, in effect for the past four days, has…
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On Women
Feminism is reason most women can even read, write–Aisha Yesufu
Renowned human and political rights activist Aisha Yesufu took to X (formerly Twitter) on January 4, 2024, to deliver a powerful reminder about the historical contributions of feminism to women’s education. Her tweet, which has…
