Countries: Nigeria
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1

"'Her suspension and the process that led to it was a shambolic show of shame,' said Ireti Bakare-Yusuf, a radio broadcaster and founder of the non-profit Purple Women Foundation, which is part of Womanifesto" (para 11).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: LBHO-DATA-1

"Only four women serve in the 109-member senate, a drop from the seven female senators elected in 2015. The number of women in the 360-member House of Representatives has also declined, from 22 in 2015 to 17" (para 8). "She [Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan] lost the election, but in November 2023 a tribunal overturned the results, paving the way for her to become one of Nigeria’s youngest senators" (para 16).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1

"She also said she had received supportive emails from women across Nigeria, including some who were afraid to speak up about their own experiences. 'In Nigeria, most women who are sexually harassed in workplaces don’t even tell their husbands because they are afraid of being judged,' she said" (para 23).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"DOHS Cares, which is organising a protest march at a court trial of another victim, submitted a draft bill to parliament to tackle femicide last year" (para 8). "'That committee didn’t meet more than twice,' said Agwuegbo, who set up the movement after Vera Uwaila Omozuwa, a 22-year-old student, was raped and killed in her church in Benin City a few months earlier" (para 12).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: MURDER-DATA-1

"Almost two dozen women have died due to gender-based violence across Nigeria in 2025 alone, activists and civil society organisations have said in a call for a state of emergency. According to Femicide Observatory, run by the Lagos-based nonprofit Document Our History (DOHS) Cares Foundation, there were 17 cases reported in January, a 240% increase from the same period last year, with an additional five by 16 February. More than 100 femicides were documented in 2024. This month, Emrich Effanga, a hairstylist in the southern town of Uyo, was strangled, allegedly by her boyfriend, an usher in their church. Just weeks before, Mutiat Sholola died, allegedly after her husband stabbed...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: TRAFF-PRACTICE-2

"The girls and women are mostly trafficked by agents who are taking advantage of record unemployment in Nigeria and operate under the guise of offering better paid work. Ten years ago, the Nigerian naira was triple the value of the CFA; today N1 equals 0.38 CFA" (para 8). "Some victims go on to become madams who source other girls, to recoup money they spent and to regain their own freedom. Across Nigeria, recruiting agents go into rural communities or post in jobseekers’ groups on Facebook, talking ambiguously about hustles that yield plenty of rewards and sending photographs of girls and women they have recruited to known madams. They coach recruits...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: TRAFF-DATA-1

"Trafficking is a major crisis in Nigeria, with between 750,000 and 1 million people forced into begging, prostitution, domestic servitude, armed conflict and labour exploitation. Some of those are being trafficked out of the country. Sara is one of thousands of Nigerian women and girls being exploited in the sex industry across towns and cities in Ivory Coast, according to Nigerian officials who spoke to the Guardian" (para 6-7).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: LRW-LAW-1

"Despite a countrywide state of emergency on rape being declared in 2020, the number of rape incidents has increased every year since" (para 8).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ABO-LAW-1

"For the past few years, she has also been selling packs of mifepristone and misoprostol, medicines included in the WHO essential medicines list to induce abortion safely. Both medicines are legal in Nigeria, a country with one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, but only if used to save women’s lives during obstetric complications" (para 1-2). "Every year in Nigeria, where abortion is legal only to save a woman’s life, approximately 6,000 women die from complications related to unsafe procedures, accounting for 10% of pregnancy-related deaths in the country. In neighbouring Lagos state, the procedure is theoretically legal to protect a woman’s health, but the specifics of this legal...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: DV-DATA-1

"For now, she says, it is the best possible way: 'There is so much domestic violence; women come and tell me their stories. Their men just come and go, want to have sex, but do nothing else. We are the ones taking care of ourselves and our children. So, we should find ways only to have babies that we know we can afford to take care of and educate. We need to find the best solutions we can'" (para 19).

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-1

"Eseosa’s motivation to create the network, unique in Nigeria, also comes from personal experience. When she was 18, she worked as a waitress in a hotel to finance her education and learned that rape was an integral and unspoken part of the job. She became pregnant after the first time she was abused and had an abortion in a private clinic. 'I was crying and I was terrified. Ten girls were waiting in a tiny corridor. There was just a bed in the room. No anaesthesia, no antibiotics or checkups. I was sick for two weeks after.' Without help or any other work prospects, she stayed in the job, was...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"The amount of gender-based violence recorded across the country is rising, particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite a countrywide state of emergency on rape being declared in 2020, the number of rape incidents has increased every year since. In 2022, 65% of women in Nigeria said they had experienced rape in their life" (para 8). "Eseosa’s motivation to create the network, unique in Nigeria, also comes from personal experience. When she was 18, she worked as a waitress in a hotel to finance her education and learned that rape was an integral and unspoken part of the job. She became pregnant after the first time she was abused and had...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: SEGI-PRACTICE-1

"The national campaign against rape is visible, and initiatives to change the perception of sexual violence, still often blamed on the survivor, are talked about in hospitals, homes and on social media. Multiple organisations, such as Mirabel Centre, WardC and Warif, partly financed by local and federal governments, provide medical, psychological and legal support to survivors, and training to doctors, police officers and judges working on cases of gender-based and sexual violence. For the past five years, on the first Saturday of December, crowds, including violence survivors, students and activists, have gathered in Lagos Island for an annual No Tolerance March. Followed by local media, people walk and chant feminist...more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: NGOFW-DATA-1

"Zara and Faith did not have abortions. Both are 18. Both became pregnant as a result of rape and, after being rejected by their families, were promised a place to stay by the only shelter in Lagos that provides support to underage pregnant girls. But only if they carried their pregnancies to term. Run by a Christian organisation, the Alabaster Jar Foundation, the shelter offers girls accommodation, food and clothing. Prenatal medical appointments, treatments, the delivery and first vaccinations for their newborns are also taken care of. Two months after the delivery, however, young mothers are left alone, encouraged to reconnect with their families or look for an alternative solution....more

Countries: Nigeria
Variables: MMR-PRACTICE-1

"Every year in Nigeria, where abortion is legal only to save a woman’s life, approximately 6,000 women die from complications related to unsafe procedures, accounting for 10% of pregnancy-related deaths in the country" (para 5).