In 2025 alone, almost 20 women have been killed due to gender-based violence across Nigeria, activists and civil society organisations have said in a state of emergency.
According to Deafcide Observatory, run by a Lagos-based nonprofit, Our History (DOHS) Cares Foundation, which reported 17 cases in January, up 240% from the same period last year, on February 16th 5 more cases have been increased. Over 100 femisides were documented in 2024.
This month, Emilig Epanga, a hairstylist in the southern town of Uyo, was strangled by the arrival of her boyfriend, their church. A few weeks ago, Mutiat Sholola is said to have died Her husband stabbed her In my head I attacked her with the hot oil of Oward Egba for several hours in Lagos. Both men were arrested.
“Looks like this trend is globally, Home is also the most dangerous place for Nigerian women and girls,” said Ololade Ajayi, founder of DOHS. “The perpetrator works with immunity as there are few appropriate consequences for this crime.”
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Some people who focus on digital inclusion and gender equality, such as Chioma Agwuegbo, executive director of Abuja-based Techherng, say the available data is far from an accurate picture of reality.
“Unfortunately, the numbers cited by civil society organisations are a microcosm of the violence women and girls experience due to poor inter-ministerial documentation and lack of trust in the system,” she said. I said that. “The agency has launched a dashboard with aplomb and fanfare, where are the numbers? The number of germicides we see is just a case of making it online. We have In reality, it's in a state of emergency.”
DOHS Cares, which organizes a protest march in another victim's court court trial, introduced a bill to Congress last year to tackle the murder.
“It's been largely ignored,” Ajay said.
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In November 2020, as part of a collaboration between Nigerian officials and the EU-UN Spotlight initiative, a national dashboard was launched providing comprehensive data on tackling gender-based violence. The authorities also established an inter-ministerial committee to sit with representatives of the Emergency GBV Movement, a coalition of 11 women's rights groups. There was lobbying on the dashboard.
Within three years, the local report alleged that 27,698 lawsuits were said to have been captured by the dashboard. It remains unclear how many perpetrators in these cases were charged.
“The committee never met more than twice,” said Agwuegbo, who set up the campaign after 22-year-old student Vera Uwaila Omozuwa was raped and killed in a church in Benin several months ago. “The craziest thing is [alleged] Rape/Murderer [in the Omozuwa case] He was caught and remanded while escaped from the state of edo. [in October 2020]The man was among those who fled. ”
