BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Gender is clearly defined as the economic, social, and cultural characteristics, qualities, and opportunities associated with being either male or female. Men and women are fundamentally different in most civilizations, as seen by their a...

ABSTRACT: The main focus of this study was to a critically investigate women entrepreneurs and the factors affecting their performance in Nigeria using women entrepreneurs in Edo State as a case study. The objective of the study seeks to find out the fa...

ABSTRACT: Family planning is an important preventive measure against maternal and child morbidity and mortality. It is an essential component of primary health care and reproductive health. There is relatively high fertility rate in suburban and rural Nigeri...

Background of the Study: Family planning is the process of having a specific number of children at intervals acceptable by individuals or couples, with the goal of promoting both the health and welfare of the family unit as a whole. As the name suggests, family planning involves...

Background of the Study: Menstrual hygiene management is described as the process whereby “women and adolescent girls use a clean menstrual hygiene management (MHM) material to absorb or collect blood that can be changed in privacy as often as necessary for...

ABSTRACT: The major purpose of the study was to identify the impact of deprivation of widow inheritance right by their husband’s relatives in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State. The study employed the survey research design to elicit information on the impact of deprivation of wido...

Background of the study: Apart from CEDAW and other international instruments which Nigeria is signatory to laws that forbid violence against women, the Nigeria constitution itself forbids it. The provision in section 42 of Nigeria constitution, guarantees all Nigeria including w...

Background to the Study: It is the smallest unit of society and one of the primary agents of socialization inside the family. The family is the earliest and most essential agent of socialization since it is the first location a child encounters in life and plays...

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Background of the Study: According to Kombo (2015), radio is an essential medium for bringing about social change through the dissemination of public education. The requirement that individuals have to...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Domestic abuse is a problem that is entrenched in many societies across the globe and Nigeria is not an exception. Research i...

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1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Sometimes called “the world’s oldest profession”, pr...

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BACKGROUND OF STUDY: According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the family is the most basic societal unit, and it is the responsibility...

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BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Women constitute a critical segment of the Nigeria population. They are active in the agriculture and economic sectors of the...

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Background of the study: Moral education is an issue that is currently being widely discussed as a result of the moral decadence of youths. The Nigeri...

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Background to the Study: Domestic abuse is a pervasive problem in many communities throughout the world, and Nigeria is no different. Numerous Nigeria...

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Marri...

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Background of the Study: Family planning in couples is rarely discussed because the practice is less likely to be endorsed by the male partner. Family...

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My Personal Experience

My personal experience with patriarchy in Africa has inspired my interest in the study of how African women oppose and/or accept the status quo of patriarchy. I come from a long line of strong African men and women who a...

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Majority of men in the society are ignorant of the wife’s right of maintenance in Islamic and statutory laws. HoweverIslam has provided the wife with the right to maintenance as enshrined in the holy Quran and statutory law respectively. But certain factors are militating...

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In most tribes in the Southern part of Kaduna State, when a person dies, his property is been distributed among family members and the women are often left with no assets. This is because, traditionally, it is deemed that women are not entitled to right of inheritance of land o...

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The right of divorce (talaq) is vested in the husband by Islamic law to terminate a marriage that fails to achieve its objectives, in order to protect the couples from the possible evil that may result from the failure of marriage. However, in the case of this research, the fin...

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Women‟s rights and how they are being practiced among different societies and civilisations remain among the topical issues in today‟s world. This study made an examination of the practice of Islamic women rights and how it impacted on people in Katsina state. The key variables...