The Lagos government says 340 cases of women beating their husbands to submission were recorded in the state last year.

Executive Secretary of the Lagos Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, disclosed this recently.

She said the incidence of reporting of domestic violence from males increased during the last year.

Vivour-Adeniyi disclosed that 340 male reported domestic violence perpetrated against them by their wives between September 2022 and July 2023.

She said this is more than twice the number reported between September 2021 and July 2022, which stood at 140 cases.

“This is an indication that the culture of silence amongst the male gender concerning issues of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) is also gradually being broken,” she stated.

Vivour-Adeniyi added that research showed that most domestic violence occurred in the evening, while Sexual Violence occurred mainly in the afternoon.

The Executive Secretary also revealed that the trend for this year’s cases received for adults, including males and females, showed a sharp increase in reportage of SGBV in September 2022 and July 2023 cases.