The Woman's Place

The United Nations’ International Organization for Migration (IOM) has said that about 3,600 Nigerian women arrived Italy by boat in the first half of 2016, almost double in the same period last year.More than 80% of these women, it said, were trafficked into prostitution in Italy and across Europe. Traffickers use migrant reception centres as holding pens for women who are then collected and forced into prostitution. In 2014, about 1,500 Nigerian women arrived by sea. In 2015 this figure had increased to 5,633.The UK Guardian quoted the UN agency as saying:

Human rights activist Irom Sharmila, also known as the "Iron lady of Manipur," started her strike in 2000, after 10 civilians were allegedly killed by Indian soldiers in the country's northeastern Manipur state and has been protesting the killings using her hunger strike ever since. Since 2000 the activist has been arrested at least 14 times for trying to 'kill herself', prompting authorities to force feed her through a drip in her nose for over a decade under a law that makes attempted suicide illegal. The 2005 Nobel Prize nominee was moved from Jawaharlal Nehru hospital in Manipur -- where she has been in judicial custody -- to court this morning amid heavy security. She will be released today and will end her hunger strike today. According to her brother she'll begin campaigning as an independent candidate in an election due to take place next year in Manipur, a state in India.

A recent Public Opinion poll conducted by NOIPolls Limited in partnership with Project Alert on domestic violence has revealed an increasing prevalence of domestic violence across Nigeria in recent times as reported by about 8 in 10 (78 percent) respondents. This prevalence is highest in the South-West geo-political zone (86 percent) and lowest in the South-South zone (70 percent). More findings revealed that 54 percent of Nigerians have suffered a form of domestic violence or know someone that has experienced domestic violence in their homes with majority of the victims being women as stated by 75 percent of respondents. Just this week, a man in Aba Abia state allegedly beat his wife into coma for lying to him that she has not been paid her salary after commissioner for finance Obinna Oriaku mis-informed the Abia public on radio that civil servants salary arrears have been paid.

The sultry actress is back to limelight after taking a break to birth her first child,looking considerably chubby but pretty allthesame. Nigerians,on social media seemed not to have taken note of her post baby weight but rather paid more attention to her beauty.I dare say,this picture here looks simply divine...

 I just love me this photo!

Dear women,let's continue to impact our world. The men would never give us the power,we just must take it!.Happy new month