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October 31, 2019 No Responses

Kaduna Raises Women Empowerment Fund to N1b

Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai on Wednesday said the government would raise the State Women Empowerment Fund (KADSWEF) to N1 billion from 2021. The governor said this in Kaduna while opening the 4th Kaduna Women Economic Empowerment Summit. “We are...

October 19, 2019 No Responses

Mahindra Inaugurates All-Women Auto Service Workshop

Mahindra & Mahindra on Friday announced the inauguration of India’s first all-women-run automobile service workshop in Jaipur. According to the company, this is part of the its larger initiative named ‘Pink Collars’ to promote recruitment of wo...

July 16, 2019 No Responses

Report: Women More Vulnerable To Injuries In Road Crashes Than Men

Women wearing seat belts are significantly more likely to suffer injury in frontal car crashesthan their belted male counterparts, according to a US study. The study, published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention, found belted female auto occupants have 7...

June 24, 2019 No Responses

Aisha Buhari Leads More Female Participation In Maritime Campaign

The First Lady, Mrs. Aisha Buhari, will be leading other dignitaries and stakeholders in the maritime community to campaign and encourage more female participation in seafaring and maritime trade as the country joins the rest of the world to mark...

June 22, 2019 No Responses

Edo, World Bank, Dangote Foundation Seek Support For Female Entrepreneurs

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state government is collaborating with the World Bank, Dangote Foundation and other development agencies to provide special support for female entrepreneurs to expand their businesses in the state. &nbsp...

April 20, 2019 No Responses

18 Years After, Woman Delivered Of Five Babies

A 42-year-old woman has given birth to five babies (quintuplets) at Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Lokoja, Kogi, after 18 years of barrenness. Mrs Uchenna Okeigbo and her kids are in good condition, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)....

April 11, 2019 No Responses

NPA Boss To Women: Battle Challenges With One Voice

The Managing Director, Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman has advised women to tackle challenges in the work place with one voice. Presenting a paper at the just concluded 3rd World Maritime University Conference, Bala Usman explaine...

March 9, 2019 No Responses

Ecobank Nigeria Unveils Special Initiative For Female Entrepreneurs

As part of activities to mark the 2019 International Women’s Day, Ecobank Nigeria has unveiled special initiative for female entrepreneurs. The Ecobank Female Entrepreneurs Initiative is a platform designed to recognise women as special and uniqu...

March 9, 2019 No Responses

Braithwaite, Emezi, Diana Make 2019 Women’s Prize For Literature List

Three Nigerian female authors, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Akwaeke Emezi and Diana Evans have been nominated for the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Women’s Prize for Fiction, previously known as the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Baileys Women’s Prize Fo...

January 7, 2019 No Responses

Jennifer Atiku: PDP ‘ll Ensure Uninterrupted Education Calendar

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will ensure an uninterrupted education calendar if elected in 2019, Mrs Jennifer Atiku, wife of the PDP presidential candidate, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, has said. Speaking at the flag-off of the Edo Central S...

December 16, 2018 No Responses

Aisha Buhari Restates Resolve on Poverty Reduction

Wife of the President, Dr. Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has restated her resolve to contribute to the reduction of the level of poverty in the country and ensuring self-reliance among Nigerian women. She was flagging-off a Women Empowerment Programme of...

November 27, 2018 No Responses

Report: Women Still Earning 20 Per Cent Less Than Men

Global wage growth in 2017 fell to its lowest rate since 2008, far below levels before the global financial crisis, according to a new International Labour Organization (ILO) report. The Global Wage Report 2018/19 finds that in real terms (adjusted...

November 24, 2018 No Responses

Aisha Buhari To Mothers: Break Culture Of Silence

Wife of the President has decried the increasing rate of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) especially those against young women, calling on mothers to break the culture of silence and report cases of abuse against their children. She was speaking during an...

November 8, 2018 No Responses

Aisha Buhari: Education Will End Early Marriages

Education has been identified as a solution to the problem of early marriages in Africa. This position was made known by wife of the President of Nigeria, Dr. Mrs. Aisha Muhammadu Buhari while receiving female delegates of the Africa Parliamentary...