The World Health Organization, WHO, has revealed that no fewer than 95, 300 women in Nigeria died from inhaling cooking smoke across the nation on annual bases.
Senior Gender Advisor, Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility, NIAF, Hajiya Amina Salihu, said this yesterday.
Presenting a paper titled: ‘Elimination of Gender Violence Against Women’ at the celebration of the International Women’s Day in Minna, yesterday; Salihu noted that death from cooking smoke as a result of the use of fire wood is the third highest killer after HIV/ AIDS amongst them.
She said before now, nobody really knew the danger inherent in inhaling smoke from cooking, until research showed otherwise that they can be plague with sicknesses as cancer, blindness, and bronchitis in the country.
Her words: “Nobody will think inhaling smoke from cooking could be dangerous. It causes blindness, cancer and even bronchitis. That is why we are looking for other ways of cooking that will not killer anyone.
To prevent women from such danger, we are creating awareness among them.” Speaking also, the state Governor, Dr. Muazu Babangida Aliyu, represented by his deputy, Hon. Ahmed Ibeto, called for the reversal of the increasing trend of abuse against women in the country, where more twothird of them are believed to suffer physical, sexual and psychological abuse in the hands of their husbands.
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