women

November 6, 2024

Exclusive Interview: Founders of PadHer, Siren and Herbode Share their Dreams for the Future of Feminism

In a time when women are being ignored, ostracised, underappreciated, and murdered, these women have stood up, ten toes down, and said “no more” to the world that we live in. They have decided to fight against patriarchy and traditional societal beliefs, and they have chosen to lead the fight for women’s freedom through outreaches,... Read More

Deep Dive, For The Culture

feminism, feminists, LGBTQ+, NGOs, Non-Governmental Organisations, women

September 9, 2024

Empowering Women with Disabilities: EDC’s Transformative 3-Day Training Program in Iwo, Osogbo, and Ikirun, Osun State

In a significant stride toward fostering inclusivity and economic empowerment, the Enterprise Development Centre (EDC) has recently concluded a groundbreaking 3-day training program aimed specifically at women with disabilities in the Iwo, Osogbo, and Ikirun areas of Osun State. This initiative underscores EDC’s unwavering commitment to creating opportunities for marginalized groups, ensuring that every individual, regardless of... Read More

disabilities, EDC, women

#PrideMonth: Boihood; Personal Triumphs of Being in Community With Bois

By Alexandra Maduagwu Boi has a variety of meanings. For this piece, which relates to masculine women or women-aligned people, and transmasculine people, the term means any of the following: • A masculine lesbian • Someone assigned female at birth, who does not identify or only partially identifies as feminine, female, a girl, or a... Read More

Non-binary Blog, Opinion

Boihood, LGBTQ+, Lived Experience, non-binary, women

Why legalising sex work could protect women

In the course of the series of interviews that became the YNaija documentary on sex workers, one wish made up the majority of what the sex workers who featured in it would love to have – a dignified job. “If I can get a job that pays N50, 000 a month, I will quit sex... Read More

Non-binary Blog

prostitution, sex work, sex workers, women, womens rights

cyber harassment

The cyber harassment of women won’t stop because it’s rooted in patriarchy

While today’s world of social media has made communication easier, with a proliferation of platforms meeting different needs and purposes, it has always been blighted by a dark side: cyber bullying. This is nothing new. On Reddit, it’s of rabid proportions to the extent that an anti-harassment policy had to be set up to curb... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

April 9th, cyber harassment, patriarchy, women

#Edo2020: 8 Months pregnant Gold medalist being under scrutiny raises many questions

A heavily pregnant Nigerian athlete, Aminat Idrees, has won Taekwondo gold medal following her victory at the ongoing National Sports Festival in Benin City tagged Edo 2020. In relation to the development, Nigerians have had mixed reactions that should have us asking, “For a people who deeply assert that women have nurturing on lock, how... Read More

BeatingCorona, Non-binary Blog

nigeria, patriarchy, pregnant woman, Sport, Taekwondo, women

Twitter Asleep

Women intend to boycott Twitter to protest against misogyny and harassment

There could be a Twitter boycott on April 9, 2021 as women call for an end to online misogynistic attacks from men. If it happens, this will be the second mass action by women in response to overt and covert misogyny on the platform. The reason that necessitated the former as well as this impending... Read More

Non-binary Blog

misogyny, Moechivous, Online Harassment, Sansa, Twitter Boycott, women

#IWD2021: In honour of Nawal El-Sadawy, the woman who inspired me to rethink Allah

by Asiya Hameed There are many reasons to write about the plight of women at any given time and not just on Women’s History Month. I was thinking about this when I saw the YNaija call for Op-eds, and so briefly dismissed it. Until my personal hero, Nawal El-Sadawy suddenly died on March 21, 2020.... Read More

Editor's Pick, Opinion

International Women's Month, Mona El-Tahawy, Muslim, Nawal El-Sadawy, nigeria, period shaming, women

#HerStory Series: “I wanted my baby to shut up, forever.” | Women’s Month Special

As difficult as it is to believe, nay conceive of, while we talk about women’s achievements in Nigeria over the years there is a whole generation of women left behind in the most populated region of the country. For International Women’s Month, we interviewed some of them to highlight unique problems missing in public discourse... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Arewa, Equal Rights, Gender equality, Herstory, International Women's Month, Life stories, nigeria, Northern Nigeria, women

Saadat Aliyu reminds us why we need to be intentional about preventing the erasure of women

On February 15, 2021 international news agency, Reuters attracted huge backlash after tweeting a piece announcing the election of former finance Minister of Nigeria, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, as the DG of World Trade Organisation. Rightly so. The now-deleted tweeted, which Reuters replaced with an apology and a rephrased tweet, read: “No-nonsense Nigerian woman to be named... Read More

Non-binary Blog

ChannelsTV, erasure, gender, Kano Lady, nigeria, reuters, women

February 27, 2021

Fatphobia, male centering | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria this week

Conversations along the themes of the non-binary blog, while sometimes few and far between, continue. We compiled some of the more interesting tweets we saw in the past week. Enjoy, and maybe join the conversation. 1. There is a deeper context to this widely contested tweet that many who violently oppose it either refuse to... Read More

Non-binary Blog

China, fat, gay, gender, Housewives, Labour, men, nigeria, women

February 17, 2021

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s win is a reminder that we have huge untapped potential in Nigerian women

Former finance minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (NOI) has attained another first. As is to be expected, a litany of congratulatory messages to her for clinching the position of Director General of World Trade Organization (WTO) has followed with zero acknowledgement to how she attained feat after feat in spite of rather than because of Nigeria’s atmosphere.... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, CNA, Dora Akunyili, Finance, gender, ngozi okonjo iweala, NOI, Slay Queen, women, WTO

IDP camp

February 4, 2021

How women from IDP camps are getting back their livelihoods

Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are persons who have been displaced by natural disaster or conflicts from their homes, and with Boko Haram insurgency in Northern Nigeria and activities of other terrorism-adjacent groups that have prolonged for years, women and children are usually the demographic adversely impacted. Conflicts arising from militant attacks have led to countless... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

boko haram, IDPs, women

January 27, 2021

Female privilege is a misnomer for sexism. Here’s some evidence

Time and again when women speak of the discrimination they face at work, home, the work place and in everyday life, an oft-repeated response from men is, “but you have it so much easier” or “look at all your female privileges, why are you complaining?” We look at some of what the ‘female privileges’ men... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Everyday Sexism, gender discrimination, gender inequality, nigeria, Sexism, women

January 21, 2021

3 Nigerian men open up about feeling unlovable when they are broke

The designation of men as ‘providers’ is as old as human civilisation, and while the cost of this on men’s overall well-being – particularly as regards to their sense of self-worth, has only been in public discourse for a handful of decades the implication of this cost is replete in our daily lives if we... Read More

Non-binary Blog

depression, men, money, patriarchy, women

January 18, 2021

The Hijab-wearing woman’s experience that could help us better understand one another

Nigeria’s cultural landscape is still taking shape, we are caught in the thick of this process daily in the conversations we have about things we hitherto only have among inner circles. It is why Twitter user @beehatu, took to the microblogging site to share her enduring struggle being a Hijab-wearing Muslim woman living in a... Read More

Non-binary Blog

hijab, islam, Muslim, nigeria, women

November 25, 2020

Duchess of Sussex opening up about her miscarriage could be the license women need to tell their stories

Women have consistently held back from sharing their stories of loss and grief for fear that it will come off inappropriate. The game-changing move by the Duchess of Sussex, Meghan Markle, who opened up about her miscarriage in July will change for a long time how women approach grief and loss. In a heartbreaking piece... Read More

Non-binary Blog

abortion, Meghan Markle, new york times, patriarchy, women

#SayHerNameNigeria is the hashtag creating awareness on the arrest and alleged sexual assault of women by the police in Abuja

Over the weekend, the police in Abuja in the capacity of the Joint Task Force raided nightclubs and arrested over seventy women, on the grounds of prostitution. Many horror stories, such as the exploitation and alleged raping of these women by the police, has riled up women on social media. I’m livid myself and from... Read More

Featured, The News Blog

#SayHerNameNigeria, Abuja arrests, women

Igbo

It is time women in Igbo land to have their #MeToo moment

If you have been following the news from Nigeria, then you have most certainly heard about the #ArewaMetoo movement. Inspired the sexual assault and rape of underaged girls in Kaduna, Kano and Abuja, women across Arewa (the traditionally Muslim North) began to share their stories about how prominent Northern families have hidden the indiscretions of... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

#MeToo, Ndi Igbo, Olamma Ekwebelem, women

Women

Personal Essay: The Lessons we teach men, and women

The earliest and clearest incident I remember of men feeling superior, claiming their superiority over me, just because they are men happened when I was 8. After a double promotion from Primary 4 to 6, I was in a class with 19 kids, 4 other girls and 15 boys. A couple of months into the... Read More

Editor's Pick, Featured, Thinking Through

deaduramilade, essay, women

Feminism

#YNaijaEssays: Feminism is radically different today from its predecessors, and that’s a good thing

It is important to note that women have always fought against oppressive social structures. It is the very nature of humans to rail against perceived injustice and to act accordingly to liberate themselves from the sources of such injustice. However, women’s struggles for equity and equality wasn’t always called ‘feminism’. The movement as it is... Read More

Dora Akunyilli, feminism, Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Noura, women

#YNaijaEssays: Where are the women in Nigerian politics?

There is no easy way to say this, the reality of present-day Nigeria is this; there are only a handful of women in policy-making positions today, and a good percentage of those women have their positions and independence compromised by their affiliation to several high powered men within the Nigerian political sphere. The future of... Read More

Thinking Through

Dora Akunyuli, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Politics, Remi Sonaiya, Sarah Jibril, women

MSG Hub

It’s almost a year and the MSG Hub is proof that women can support one another

It’s almost a year. One full year since I welcomed the first group of women to a place that fast became home. Home being a place where the heart is happy and at peace. The MSG Hub. Looking back at the year, emotions come flooding. How? How did it happen? That a need became a... Read More

MSG hub, Muslimah, women

Pamela Adie

Pamela Adie is ready to tell her story in ‘Under the Rainbow’

We need more LGBT activists living and working in Nigeria, period. It is understandable that because of our volatile religious and cultural climate, many people on the spectrum prefer to live their lives in the closet, to protect tenuous familial and social relationships. But for some people, events occur that force them to embrace their... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

Documentary, Pamela Adie, The Sexuality Blog, women

Dayo Benjamins Laniyi

[The Activism Blog] There is another side of Dayo Benjamins Laniyi you don’t know

Last week I was in Abuja as a media participant at the Bold and Beautiful 2018, a week long program in commemoration of the international women’s day with the theme “Press for Progress” convened by celebrity host and wife of the senior Pastor RCCG Throne room Abuja Pastor Dayo Benjamins Laniyi. The program which is... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

2018, Dayo, women

Kazaure

Mohammed Kazaure tried it, on International Women’s Day of all days

On a day the entire world was celebrating the International Women’s Day, the Honourable member representing Kazaure/Roni/Gwiwa/Yankwashi federal constituency in Jigawa state Honourable Mohammed Kazaure chose to denigrate womanhood. While making comment on deliberations relating to the International Women’s Day celebrations, the lawmaker gleefully stated that women should not be given too much power as... Read More

Counter Culture Blog

10 most powerful people in Nigeria’s Tech Eco-system, Kazaure, women

Opinion: Let’s tell the truth, Anthony Joshua was slaughtered on the altar of pseudo wokeness…. the future of women is next

New babies are the biggest threat to the planet, so some unified system is necessary for controlling them. Our faith in humans using their reason to handle this is turning out badly and shaming them isn’t working anymore. It’s time to hand it over to science. Time has come to definitively outsource the entire child-bearing... Read More

Opinion, Thinking Through

Anthony Joshua, feminism, opinion, women

Sola Sobowale, Pamela Adie, Halima Dangote & more! YNaija.com and Leading Ladies Africa present the 100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria

In its quest to inspire a generation of women to do greater things in diverse fields of endeavour, Y!/YNaija.com, in partnership with Leading Ladies Africa project brings you Nigeria’s 100 Most Influential Women – #YWomen100. Leading Ladies Africa presents it’s annual #100 Most Inspiring Women in Nigeria list for 2018. Now in its 4th year, the list,... Read More

Featured, YNaija Women 100

International Women's Day, Leading Ladies Africa, women

February 10, 2018

Lagos Innovates supports women in technology at SLAY Festival

Lagos Innovates, an initiative of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund is investing in the development of women in tech…

Business, event, Lagos Innovates, network, SLAY festival, technology, women

January 23, 2018

SLAY Festival returns for a mindblowing second edition

SLAY Festival 2018 promises to be fun, impactful and overall, an awesome event! It is the top festival for young women w…

event, She Leads Africa, SLAY festival, women

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