Issues Arising

The effects of the #sexforgrades documentary released by BBC Africa Eye have just begun as Foursquare Gospel Church has distanced itself from the pastor and Unilag Lecturer, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu. 

Barely 6 hours after the BBC Africa Eye Documentary which showed two lecturers from University of Lagos and University of Ghana sexually harass journalists disguised as students, #sexforgrades has started trending on Twitter.

In Africa, academic institutions are rife with male lecturers who constantly harass female students asking for sex in exchange for good grades. However, this phenomenon has seen little to no reportage. It is also hard to prove and so students hardly get the justice they deserve even after speaking up.

So here's the tea; women bleed. A lot. Every month, mother nature assumes we would be making steamy love to a dark handsome gent and carry a love child in our belly, so she prepares our uterus to receive said love child.

Parents and Christian groups in Ghana are kicking against the Comprehensive Sexuality Education which is planned to be introduced to primary school children from the age of four. 

In 2017, after a father had beaten his 13-year old son "in a manner that exceeded the bounds of reasonable chastisement", the South African High Court ruled that spanking of children by their guardians and parents was illegal.

Another woman has just been murdered in South Africa. According to police spokesperson Captain Nqobile Gwala, 22 year old Sinethemba Ndlovu died after sustaining two stab wounds below her left armpit and stomach. She died in medical care.

Two African women, Ilwad Elman and Hajer Sharief have made the list for winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Award. Somalia's social rights activist, Ilwad Elman and Libyan law student, Hajer Sharief have been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize award.

The South African government has pledged R1.1 billion (USD 682 million) as additional funding towards the fight against the continued gender-based violence in South Africa.

My lecturer who is also a gynecologist told us a very gory story. There was a pregnant woman whom he had as a patient and upon examination of this woman a few months to her delivery date, discovered that she had a very small pubic angle.