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ABSTRACT
This research examines the issues of Domestic violence in Nigeria. Domestic violence is a ubiquitous concept in today’s society. Domestic violence is a problem that may affect more than a quarter of the world’s population. Studies often focus on a specific or selected population and exhibits a diversity if design, making comparison difficult. This research work discusses the factors responsible for the prevalence of domestic violence in Nigeria. The dangers of domestic violence cannot be overemphasized, as there is a plethora of day to day effects of the domestic violence. The average person is prone to experience domestic abuse sometime in their lives, since the home is the place where persons are most exposed to being abused. Laws have been put in place to eradicate this menace in Nigeria, but still the occurrence is in no way dwindling. One can say there is a culture of abuse in Nigeria. We have all grown up with punishments as a part of our daily lives. It not seen as an issue where children are beaten when they do wrong, street hawking is a norm, wife molestation is frowned on a bit, while violence against men is not even seen as an issue, because they are always viewed as aggressors, or weaklings where it is veritably seen that such a man is suffering abuse. The whole idea of domestic violence in Nigeria is discovered, in this work, to be somewhat of an institutionalized “norm”. It is shown from this research that there are both governmental and non-governmental, legal mechanisms put in place to curb this menace, however, there is a poor system of implementation of these laws and use of the available mechanisms making them ineffective to a certain extent. This research therefore recommends that more in the form of educating the populace which will go a long way in ensuring that already available mechanisms are efficiently utilized for the betterment of the nation’s denizens.
