VOICE OF THE VOICELESS FROM NIGERIA

Have you ever been harassed in the street? Received a crass message on a dating app? Had a coworker make a comment about your appearance that just didn’t sit right? You’re not alone. With the #MeToo movement, it’s easy to log onto Twitter or Facebook and see just how many women are victims of sexual harassment. Whether in person or online, women everywhere have experienced it in one way or another. And with all the new ways the internet has opened avenues of communication,  online harassment is more prevalent than ever . According to a  study  by the Pew Research Center,  most online abuse takes place on social media . Although men are also subject to online harassment – which includes name calling, derision, and physical threats – the study found that online,  women are more than twice as likely as men to experience sexual harassment .   In addition,  more than half of women ages 18-29 report having been sent sexually explicit images without their consent . This number is only growing

Fake news is stoned age news. So if you are wondering where or when fake news emanate from, you will be wasting my time for nothing in a discuss that have no end. This is year and in years to come from now we will be measuring if agenda 2030 is achieved or not. But to my mind there's big connect of the 17 SDGs to misinformation, disinformation and fake news. I have once been misled to a wrong direction in a visiting city I didn't exactly know wheteabout to my final  destination. So I asked for direction from passengers we boarded train with who is, as  claimed are residents of the said city. So I trusted the information as accurate but landed in wrong destination, and worst still, was that the wrong destination exposed me to great security risk. I later got to know that the residents I requested information from, didn't in the real sense knew the exactness of the direction but directed me to a similar direction known to them. However, I was able to retraced my direction by