Women and Child watch Inititative

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Our Researchers

DR. BIOLA ADIMULA

PROJECT DIRECTOR

Dr. Adimula Ruth Abiola is a Peace Scholar and a Lawyer. She obtained her Ph.D in Peace and Development Studies from University of Ilorin in 2014. Her research work is on Gender, Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees in West Africa- she worked among the refugees in Oru Nigeria, Budumburam Refugees camp Ghana, Grafton (Amputees) IDPs camp Sierra Leone & Bakassi IDPs camp Nigeria.
She obtained her LL.M from Obafemi Awolowo University in 2004, she was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1993 and had her LL.B from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1992.
In 2010, she won the Commonwealth Fellowship for training in the United Kingdom on Violence against Women and Child Justice Administration and she also had a professional training on Alternative Dispute Resolutions at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London. She is an Awardee of the International Bar Association in 2008.
Dr. Adimula has been involved in Policy formulation within the West African sub region. In 2006, she served as a member of Review Committee of ECOWAS Youth Policy. She was a member of the Review Committee of (Nigeria) National Gender Policy in 2014 and as a Consultant to UNICEF, she presented the keynote Paper in 2005 before the Kwara State House of Assembly that led to the domestication of Child Rights Act, 2003 in Kwara State.
Dr. Adimula has presented papers globally in Law and Peace conferences and between 2008 and 2015 has been a Delegate and a Speaker on different topics at the United Nations, Commission on Status of Women, New York, USA; and she has publications in Law, Gender and Peace Journals nationally and internationally. She was a Council Member of International Bar Association between 2010 & 2012, she served as Council Member in different Committees and Forum of the Nigerian Bar Association. She is a member of Society for Peace Studies and Practice and the General Secretary of Commonwealth Scholars and Fellows Alumni Association, Nigeria. Dr Adimula served as a council Member of Kwara State Citizens Mediation and Conciliation Centre between 2008 and 2011 and in recognition of her service to Women and children, she was appointed as the Special Assistant to the Executive Governor of Kwara State on Women Affairs, she served in that capacity between 2013 & 2015.
As community service she coordinated members of Children’s Parliament to advocate for establishment of Family Court in Kwara State in 2009 and in 2012 she nominated two Magistrates of Kwara State Judiciary for Commonwealth fellowship in UK, on training in Family Court and child justice administration which served as establishment and functioning of Family Court in Kwara State, Nigeria, till date; she is also the initiator and coordinator of Great Kwara Spelling Bee Competition and Seeds National Spelling Bee competition, an educational programme among secondary schools in Nigeria.

OLAWALE ROTIMI OPEYEMI

RESEARCH COORDINATOR

Olawale Rotimi is a prolific writer and journalist in social/humanitarian issues.
Currently, he serves as the Special Assistant (Media) to the Chairman of House Committee on Justice, House of Representatives Abuja and Editor of The AGES Socio-Political Magazine
Olawale obtained Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts from the University of Ilorin in 2010 and 2014 respectively, majoring in African Culture, Religious Conflicts and Religio-Moral Issues. He obtained Diploma in French (Diplôme d études en langue,Paris) in 2012.

He has served as supervisor, consultant and researcher to government at various levels. Some of these include media supervisor for Senate Committee on Environment Oversight Committee (2015), Clean Cooking Stove Research Survey in North Central (2014) for Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology, nomadic school project in Ekiti Local Government, Cassava Processing Unit Project in Ekiti Local Government to mention a few.
Currently, he consults for the Commissioner, Kwara state Ministry of Youths and Sports in youth development. This involves designing programmes and policies that will reduce youth unemployment to the barest minimum, end youth radicalism, and gainfully engage the young population in the state.
As a journalist, Olawale has interviewed more than two dozens of persons contributing to development in Africa. His resourceful articles and stories have been widely published in international and national dailies and online blogs. One of such is the article on Internally Displaced Persons in Nigeria which is widely gaining traction.

VICTOR MATHIAS

DISEMINATION OFFICER

Victor Mathias, born on August 31st 1987, is a journalist with Africa’s most awarded television station, Channels Television, with local, national and international experience.
A graduate of Political Science from the University of Maiduguri (2010), Victor is known for his distinctive baritone and is a presentable, intelligent, well-spoken and responsible journalist.
Victor has covered stories in Nigeria and outside the shores of the country, ranging from the Boko Haram insurgency, health, social issues, ICT and IDPs. He is the pioneer presenter and producer of Channels Television’s flagship social media powered programme, Channels Beam. Victor is also a major contributor in Africa’s social media circles, especially on the micro blogging site Twitter where he tweets @victor_mbidi.