A women’s rights activist, founder and Executive Director of DOHS Care Foundation, Mrs Ololade Ajayi, shares her thoughts with BIODUN BUSARI on the disturbing rise in femicide, the intentional killing of women and girls because of their gender
How does your advocacy track femicide cases in the country?
We have a Femicide Observatory, which is an app that crawls the internet searching for gender-related killings of women and girls in Nigeria. So, we receive alerts through that.
We also get alerts from social media, the mainstream media, and communities, especially rural communities where these cases occur.
Through this Femicide Observatory, we tracked over 42 cases in just the first four months of the year, from January to April. In May, we tracked 12 more cases, bringing the total to 54 cases in 2026 alone.
