The pen is mightier than the gun
By Suleiman Jumain Shuaibat Moyinlorun Ayomipe Treasure became the first female president of the Elizade University Law Students’ Society in five years when she was inaugurated in 2026. The fourth-year…
By Luqman Kamaldeen Oladayo When Olaiya Sheriffdeen fled Shama village, it wasn’t a decision he made lightly. It wasn’t even a decision, it was a run for survival. Sheriffdeen, a…
By Maryam Umar “I’d rather suffer in silence than speak up and risk being embarrassed.” Fatimah Umar*, a 400-level student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), says it plainly, like…
By Maryam Umar Old Patriarchy, New Tools Historically, women are not regarded as humans with bodily autonomy and integrity, but as objects of men’s sexual desires. This is rooted in…
There has been an increase in enrolment in higher education once it was recognised that higher education was vital for Africa’s development. In Sub-Saharan Africa, enrolment on average currently still…
Hamid Fatimah Omotayo writes, According to Aristotle, Education is the process of creating a sound mind into a sound body. It is also a process that begins from birth and…
Hamid Fatimah Omotayo writes, In our contemporary world, women are the most molested beings– they give them no regard, they are seen as sex objects and nothing more aside that.…
Mazeed Mukhtar Oyeleye writes, Each time I recall something that occurred during my first year, I wonder how deep the roots of gender stereotypes stretch in our society. My roommate,…
Hamid Fatimah Omotayo writes, Gender-based violence (GBV) is a general term for any harmful threat or act directed at an individual or group based on actual or perceived biological sex,…
Abdulazeez Rahmah writes, Child marriage, as it is generally known as marrying off any person under the age of 18, in Nigeria is one of the most ravaging, creepy, and…