Domestic Violence Against Women s Nigeria - 3495 Words

CHAPTER FOUR 4.1 SELECTED CASES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN NIGERIA Cases of domestic violence against women have been on the increase in Nigeria. Women are being abused on a daily basis whether by battering, acid bath, rape, widowhood practices, genital mutilation, among others. A 27-year-old woman, Folashade Shodiya, said she was forced to stab her husband to death because the latter habitually abused her at home.PUNCH Metro had reported on November 19, 2014, that the police arrested Shodiya, for allegedly stabbing her husband to death. Shodiya explained that when the beatings she suffered from her husband reached a level, she thought of taking her life and ate a poison. She added that she, however, did not die because some neighbours came to her rescue. This attempted suicide is as a result of the belief that there was no escape route from the violent relationship with man who was the father of her child. â€Å"...he had a habit of beating me over trivial issues. 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