A Gender equality activist and women empowerment advocate, Amaka Ekpecham, has highlighted the divergent patterns of genital mutilation across Nigeria’s Niger Delta and Northern regions, underscoring ...

When men are oppressed, it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition – Letty Lottin Pogrebi. An estimated 200 million girls and women in 30 African countries, the Middle East, and Asia are ...

The UNFPA Country Representative in Nigeria, Dr Diene Keita, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja that the campaign has been successful, in spite of no prosecution of offenders.

The wife of the Kwara Governor, Prof. Olufolake AbdulRazaq, has described Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) as a human rights violation that must be stopped. AbdulRazaq stated this while in Ilorin on ...

In Nigeria, 20 million girls and women have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “female genital mutilation (FGM) involves the partial or total ...

The Federal Government has disclosed that Nigeria accounts for the highest number of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) globally, with about 32.5 million Nigerians being affected. While stressing that ...

Nigeria accounts for the third-highest number of women and girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation, with an estimated 19.9 million survivors, two UN agencies have said. The UN agencies — ...

Traditional practitioners of FGM in Africa have begun to back out of the business. That doesn’t mean it is over. Now many female teens are checked into hospitals under the pretext of an illness and a ...

Male circumcision, the focus of my previous post (Rites of Circumcision, posted October 10, 2018), although not universal, occurs widely. Female genital mutilation (FGM)— also called genital cutting ...

Circumcision is a medical procedure that involves removing the foreskin, the tissue covering the head of the penis. It is performed for various reasons, including religious, cultural, and medical. The ...