Over 133 Nigerian women and girls, including teenagers, were victims of gender-based violence (GBV) and femicide-related cases between January 1 and December 31, 2024. This is according to a report by DOHS Cares Foundation, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to combating gender-based violence and monitoring cases of femicide. The data comes from the Foundation’s tracker dashboard, which monitors cases of femicide...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is defined as harmful acts directed at an individual, mostly women, based on their gender. Every other day, we hear of a girl or woman whose human rights are being violated physically, sexually, or emotionally, sometimes resulting in their untimely deaths. A most recent case that comes to mind is that of 21-year-old Justina Otuene, a 300-level...

1,145 fatal gender-based violent cases were recorded, and 393 perpetrators were convicted within the period under review. Nigeria recorded 27,698 acts of sexual and gender-based violence between 2020 and 2023. Sunday Agbakaba, the Data Manager, Federal Ministry Women of Affairs, stated this during the train-the-trainers workshop on the use of the GBV dashboard and reportage on Tuesday in Umuahia. He...