5 Key Issues Facing Women In Nigeria.

United Nations study published Thursday showed that nearly 90 percent of the world's population discriminate against women despite decades of trying to balance their rights.

Women make up 50% of the world's population. In Nigeria, 49% of women are women, but women are still not as free as in other countries. Here are some of the differences between Nigerian men and women. 1. The law of citizenship Section 26 of the Constitution provides that all married men in Nigeria are allowed to become citizens, but foreign men are not allowed to marry Nigerian women. citizens not. Many see that equal treatment of women is a way of discriminating against them and violating the Convention on the Prohibition of Women (CEDAW). Some victims of similar legislation often complain about discrimination in their home country. 2. Marriage Place : Nigeria is one of the most popular countries in the world. According to a report by the United Nations Children's Fund, four out of 10 women get married before the age of 18. The Constitution of Nigeria states that "any woman who marries a woman shall be regarded as a capable woman." In the northern part of the country where Muslims are predominantly Muslim, some leaders of our nation have tried to limit the minimum age for a woman to ensure her control. But many clerics have challenged the move, saying it is against religion. Scholars say Islamic law does not specify the age of marriage, so parents have the right to decide when to marry their children. Supporters of the constitution say that Islamic law does not explicitly define the meaning of the age of marriage when it comes to marriage. 3. Widows and widows Traditionally, women are considered to be the property of their husbands, in some cultures, whenever a man dies, a woman falls into a state of isolation and abuse from the family. When a woman dies, a man does not want to be seen crying out in public, because he seems to have failed as a leader at home. In some parts of Nigeria, whenever a man dies, the wife is first to blame for the death of her husband, causing her to do things that are against the law to clean herself. At the same time as men are pursuing education, the woman is also struggling to get married and quit school where she will be busy doing household chores. 4. Residential rent Hiring a house for many women in Nigeria is a daunting task, because homeowners are preventing them from thinking that they will have no money to pay the bills every year. There are also homeowners who believe that women should not be living in rented houses without their parents. But these laws do not apply to men.

Nigerian worker Olufunmilola Ogungbile told the BBC that 99 per cent of tenants who went to them had denied her rent because she was single. She explains that most of them say to a woman unless she brings her boyfriend or husband. In order to avoid this kind of discrimination, many women go to see other men as their husbands in order to be offered a home. 5. Birth control Research shows that gender equality is one of the most pressing challenges to childbirth in Nigeria. Only 13% of women between the ages of 15 and 19 use birth control. Many women are incapable of starting their own births without the consent of their husbands, and men are more likely to put their wives on contraception even if women do not want to.