End Violence against Women...

The United Nations General Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."  -Wikipedia.

Violence can be dated to as far back as the period that preceded the Enlightenment phase of mankind. Prior to that time, women were usual regarded as subjects to their men. However, with the dawning of the enlightenment age, women became out spoken, dependent, the desire for education and professionalism suddenly sprang up, and women began to take charge of their own affairs. They took up the mantle of leadership, and have since then, occupied one lead role or the other.

It is however sad, that not every woman has been liberated and not every male has ceased to violate a woman at one point or the other, as we still hear of cases of physical, emotional, psychological, sexual and mental slavery which as a result of non-eradication of violence against women.

Good Self Esteem; A Key Ingredient In Creating A Better Nigeria

Defining self esteem

Self esteem is a term commonly used in psychology to reflect a person’s overall evaluation or appraisal of his or her self worth. It is also referred to as one’s self image. In modern times, it is described as how high or low one’s ‘’swagger’’ is. One can easily pick out similarities in these descriptions like high/low, image/worth, etc.  Irrespective of these different words, the same question is asked- ‘’how do you see yourself?’’

Self esteem is your opinion about yourself. Self esteem means knowing what you are good at and what you’re not so good at without letting it diminish the way you see yourself. This is because your self esteem creates part of your identity...