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Why girl-child should be empowered with martial arts, life-saving skills –YEF
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The Youth Empowerment Foundation (YEF), an NGO, says it is important to equip the girl-child with basic martial skills for protection against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV).
According to it, life skills education and sport are also necessary to empower adolescent girls and equip them for the world.
Ms Tolulope Osoba, Programme Manager, YEF Nigeria, made the assertion during a stakeholders’ meeting tagged `GOAL Project Reaching New Heights’ on Monday in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that YEF is a youth-focused not-for-profit organisation in Nigeria.
It has the mission for youths to live in a world of abundant resources; a world where the innate potential is harnessed for positive self-development.
YEF improves the quality of life of the youth through mobilisation, empowerment, and partnership programs, in the areas of education, secure livelihoods, health child protection, environmental management and sports for development.
The GOAL stakeholders’ meetings and engagement is important as over two decades, YEF has continued to leverage robust relationships and partnerships with government ministries, teachers and other non-academic players to implement a series of interventions.
These interventions are aimed at improving the lives of adolescents and young persons.
Osoba said: “The alarming rate of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) constitute a major factor threatening the lives and socioeconomic status of the survivors who are mostly women.
“It becomes imperative to equip our girls with the necessary skills to be self-sufficient, especially skills in martial arts which are useful for self-defence in situations of abuse, violation and danger.
“Martial arts build and develop socialisation skills as well as overall confidence.
“So, GOAL, through the SGBV outreach programme, has afforded the participants the opportunity to share their personal experiences, ask questions and have the contacts to report cases of abuse.
“YEF recognises the enormous role of girl/women in the nation’s building and has extensively empowered over 500,000 women and young girls in Nigeria.
“Particularly in the area of leadership enhancement, sexual and reproductive health knowledge, financial literacy, vocational skills acquisition, soft loans and health issues.’’
According to her, SGBV sessions have been conducted in several communities of Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja FCT.
She, however, noted some challenges that affected the implementation of some of the programmes in 2021, while commending support received from some quarters.
“Government bureaucracy has continued to be one of the major challenges we face implementing Goal in 2021, at some quarters. YEF still wants to work with schools in Ajegunle, Lagos.
“However, we must sincerely appreciate government parastatals and ministries for their continued partnership and support.
“ We are also using this opportunity to solicit for more support, especially for program approval letters, needed to expand our reach so more lives can be imparted.
“Lack of adequate cooperation by some schools; this borders on the insufficient allocation of time for in-school project activities, lack of provision of classrooms for our sessions and so on.
“Also, lack of cooperation from some community leaders and gatekeepers,’’ Osoba said.
Also, Mrs Iwalola Akin-Jimoh, Executive Secretary, YEF, also stressed the importance of empowering girls.
“It is important that girls be empowered especially adolescent girls and one of the most effective ways is to use football and taekwondo to teach various life skills like negotiation, leadership and all that.
“And through GOAL, it has enabled us through a component that focuses on child protection and gender-based violence.
“People are talking about it, rape, defilement, SGBV; a lot is going on.
“We want the girls themselves to be agents of change for gender-based violence because they confide in themselves so when they learn about their friends or somebody else that is a survivor of abuse.
“Most times when they give us information, we’re able to track before the person for justice to take its course,’’ she said.
“We even support them to cases that they need to do in court so that at the end of the day, justice is done and then as much as possible.
“We also refer them for care, especially mental health care.
“So, these are some of the things we’re doing with the project to ensure that you know, we have miniatures of ourselves and the community doing as much good as possible,’’ Akin-Jimoh said. (NAN)
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Petrol Price Hike: Residents Stranded as Transporters Protest in Ilorin
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Several commercial transport operators in Ilorin on Thursday stormed some major streets in the metropolis to protest the new hike in petrol pump price.
During the protest, they expressed their displeasure with the sudden price hike, with the action leading to untold hardship for thousands of commuters.
The protests which commenced on Thursday morning significantly disrupted the movement of commercial vehicles across the city.
This forced passengers to resolve to trekking to their destinations.
The protest was spearheaded by some operators of commercial tricycles and commercial motorcycle riders who blocked several major roads in the city.
The road blocks occurred at Taiwo Isale, Coca-Cola road Junction, Maraba, Gambari Road and Offa Garage, bringing traffic to a standstill for several hours.
Consequently, commuters faced severe delays as the protesters restricted vehicular movements, demanding immediate action to address the situation.
Jimoh Abubakar, a commercial tricycle operator who spoke with newsmen at Maraba, revealed that the protest was because of the sudden hike in fuel pump price.
Abubakar said the increase was unfair, adding that transporters hardly made profit due to money spent on fuel.
“In fact, when we were charging N50 per drop, it was more profitable than now. The hardship is too much, the government should help us,” he said.
Another tricycle rider, Yusuf Issa, also called on government to reduce fuel pump price, saying tricycle riders now spend all their income on fuel.
“They (government) should reduce it totally. It is becoming very difficult to make any profit, not to talk of taking care of the family from what we do for a living,” he said.
The focal points of the protest, such as Maraba and Murtala Mohammed Way Junction, witnessed aggrieved transporters chanting “(We say) ‘No’ to consistent price hike”.
Security operatives, including personnel of the Nigerian Police and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), were deployed to key areas in the metropolis to ease the tension and ensure orderliness.
The presence of security agents helped to prevent any escalation into violence and ensured that the protest remained largely peaceful in spite of the significant disruptions to daily activities.
The protest caused widespread disruption as residents who relied on public transport as they were stranded and could not go for their daily activities.
Many of them later resolved to trekking to their various destinations.
Report says that most independent petroleum marketers in Kwara now sell at different prices ranging from N950 to N1200 per litre.(NAN)
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Anti-bullet Charm Trial: Native Doctor in Police Net for Allegedly killing Client
Police in Edo have detained a 19-year-old native doctor, Timothy Dauda, for allegedly shooting his client, Alex Ezekiel, to death during an “anti-bullet” charm trial.The Command’s Public Relations Officer, SP Moses Yamu, confirmed the incident to Newsmen on Monday.Yamu said that the incident happened on August 20 in Onumu Community, near Igara, Akoko Edo Local Government Area of the state.
He said that the suspect was arrested by operatives from Igarra Divisional Police Station in Akoko-Edo. The suspect allegedly claimed to specialise in preparing charms against gunshots and machete cuts.A source further told NAN that the deceased had visited the native doctor’s home to obtain the charm.It said that “in a shocking turn of events”, Dauda attempted to test the efficacy of the charm by shooting the client with a gun.The charm was said to have failed as he sustained fatal injuries.“When he was rushed to a hospital in Igarra, he was pronounced dead by a medical doctor,” the source further said.Meanwhile, the police spokesman said that the suspect would face prosecution as soon as investigations were concluded(NANUncategorized
Police Arrest 2 for Allegedly Robbing Commercial Sex Workers in Lagos
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The Police Command in Lagos State says it has arrested two men for allegedly robbing three commercial sex workers.
The Command’s Spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to newsmen on Saturday.
Hundeyin said that the three sex workers reported the case to the police on Wednesday at about 2.
20a.m.He disclosed that the victims reported that they sighted two robbery suspects at an undisclosed place, who allegedly robbed them of their valuables on Aug.
23, at about 4.30a.m.“They stated they were picked up being commercial sex workers at Adeniran Ogunsanya Street, Bode Thomas, Surulere by the two suspects.
“They were taken to where they claimed the (suspects) lodged.
Suddenly, the suspects parked and ordered them to surrender their valuables.“In the process, two Iphone valued at N1.05 million, one REDMI Note 12 valued at N140,000, Iphone SR valued at N240,000 were collected from them.
“The suspects also compelled the victims to transfer ₦25,OOO to an Opay Account and N8, 000 to same account,” he said.
The police spokesperson said that during investigation, the suspects confessed to the crime.
He disclosed that the suspects operational vehicle, a Toyota Camry with Reg. No. APP335 JA, two other blank number plates they were using for their operation were recovered.
Hundeyin said that one of the victim’s cell phone, REDMI NOTE 12, was also recovered from the suspects, while investigation was ongoing. (NAN)