One was the news that the Nigerian military was going to end the admission of female cadets into the combatant course of the Nigerian Defence Academy. Then, there was the story of the 26 women who died on the migrant ship off the Italian coast town of Salerno. It has been common knowledge that most of the women who migrate to Europe through abject circumstances come from that part of Nigeria. They decide who gets which privileges and their treatment of women under this asymmetric arrangement is a form of svengalism. Women, to them, are not citizens with equal rights, privileges, and responsibilities but an afterthought whose uses are determined by their patriarchal impulses.

Source: Punch November 22, 2017 23:03 UTC