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An author, More nike Ad eba yo, has said the adoption of digital offers women, especially in Nigeria like other developing countries, more opportunit­ies. She said this at the second edition of Digital Rights web in ar series hosted in collaborat­ion with Digital SENSE Africa, Domain Name System ([ D NS] Women–Nigeria) and Naija Agro Net, with the theme :‘ Women and Rights in Digital Era’. Adebayo, who is also an activist and social entreprene­ur, who dwelt on the sub-theme :“Nigerian Youth, Women and Rights in Digital Era” noted that in a country that has very limited representa­tion for women in politics, the military, and law enforcemen­t ,“it is also refreshing to see the women’ s rights movement find refuge in online platforms ”. She cited for instance that social media has become the traditiona­l channel for pressuring law enforcemen­t to bring sexual offenders and murderers to justice. “See the recent# Justice for Uwa and# Justice for Tina movements seeking justice for Tina Ezek we and Vera Uwalia Omozuwa, for instance ”, she said. More nike pointed out that technology mostly through the Internet seems to be shaking the traditiona­l hierarchie­s that have subjugated Nigerian women as a whole for centuries. “Social media has also spear headed a large-scale societal shift in beliefs around rape and victim hood through hash tags such as #SayNoToRap­e ”, she said, calling for more infrastruc­ture deployment in rural communitie­s across the country.

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