This study details the efforts of Nigerian women in the uniformed services including the Police, Prisons and Armed Forces, as sexual violence problem-solving forces and "protector" of local women in armed conflict situations. It examines gender reflections in the selection, training and deployment of Nigerian troops and contingents, the implication of these reflections on the protection of women in conflict situations and the strategies employed by Nigerian women peacekeepers to protect themselves and meet the particular needs of women and girls in conflicts. Using records of policies, programs and debriefing reports from the Nigerian Army, Police and Prisons service archives, oral interviews, memoirs and diaries of former peacekeepers, questionnaire survey, ethnographic data from Liberian and Ethiopian-Eritrean civil wars and secondary sources, this study details the status of Nigerian women peacekeeper as an integral part of conflict related sexual violence problem-solving force in the UN peacekeeping operations in Africa.