Female students of Government Girls Secondary School (GGSS) in Minna, Niger State have begged both the federal and state governments to provide free sanitary pads for secondary school girls.
According to some of the girls, the inability to purchase the pads during their menstrual period had forced them to resort to the use of clothes and tissues.
They made the appeal after a ‘Pad A Girl’ Campaign organized by Media Mentors Network in collaboration with Succeeding Against All Odds and Niger State chapter of the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria (NRHJN) to commemorate the World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
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Womanifesto, NRHJN call for justice in sexual harassment case
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By Sola Ogundipe
The Feminist Womanifesto and the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria, NRHJN, have charged the Ogun state government to thoroughly investigate an alleged case of sexual harassment by Miss Barakat Melojuekun, against the state’s Commissioner of Environment, Mr. Saheed Abudu Balogun,
In separate open letters, the two organisations called for justice even as they acknowledged the intervention of the Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, who has suspended the Commissioner and ordered the Police to probe the allegation.
In its own letter signed by the Executive Director of Women Advocate Research and Documentation Centre, WARDC, Dr. Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi, the Feminist Womanifesto – a collection of more than 500 women organisations and individuals working across Nigeria to attain gender justice and gender equality, threatened to initiate a case against the accused if appropriate action is
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Despite the decision of the family of 16-year-old Barakat Melojuekun to drop charges against the suspended Ogun State Commissioner for Environment, Abiodun Abdul-Balogun, who allegedly attempted to rape her, some groups have insisted that Governor Dapo Abiodun and the state police command must ensure that the matter is not covered up.
The two groups – the Network of Reproductive Health Journalists of Nigeria (NRHJN) and the Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) – made their position known in separate statements seen by PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday and Sunday respectively.
This newspaper reported how the commissioner was accused of attempting to rape a secondary school student in his apartment on December 31, 2020.