According to her, climate change affects everyone but women bear the brunt of its adverse effects.
“Adverse results of Climate Change are security and farming crises.
“We are in the month of November and the rains are still falling. This is unusual and the people who suffer it most are women and children,”
Two women have been killed in a bus crash on Moloto Road in Bronkhorstspruit, Tshwane, in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
“Circumstances surrounding the incident are not yet known, but it occurred this morning between 05:00 and 06:00 while it was raining. The accident happened around a curve,” Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) spokesperson Isaac Mahamba told News24 on Wednesday afternoon.
The two women killed were aged 40 and 16. Authorities are not able to disclose their details until the next of kin is informed.
A total of 41 passengers, as well as the driver, sustained injuries, according to …
Following the video trending online, Nigerians have condemned the actions of some officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), for dehumanising women who concealed small quantity of rice in their private parts at one of the nation’s borders.
They argued that there was no where in the Customs Excise Management (CEMA) that stated that officers of NCS should dehumanise citizens and noncitizens over little quantity of rice padded in their private parts by sharing the video to the public.
The members of the public said that nobody was stopping the Customs officers from doing their duty as stated in the …
Nigerian Women Groups have commended the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq, for ceding 56 per cent of slot of state’s executive cabinet to women include youths.
The women said the governor had set a precedence for other state chief executives, including the federal executive and corporate bodies to emulate.
Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on gender inclusion in the state, National President, Women in Politics Forum, Mr. Ebere Ifendu, alongside other women groups said they considered Abdulrasaq’s gesture as a “great achievement not only for the people of Kwara State but for Nigerians as a whole and …
Kemi Olaitan writes that a report on the 2019 general election published by Nigerian Women Trust Fund, in partnership with the Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative with support from MacArthur Foundation puts in perspective the issue of gender inequality and enhancement of women’s participation in politics
Seven months after the 2019 general election which President Muhammadu Buhari won for a second time, virtually all other winners are in already in their offices and the losers either at the tribunals, appellate courts or strategising for another day, but the reverberations have not stopped as reports continue to spew out on …
Three more women have come forward to police to accuse Cuba Gooding Jr. of sexual misconduct. According to “The People”, claims made by the unidentified women are being investigated and no new charges against Gooding have been filed.
Gooding’s attorney, Mark J. Heller, in a statement the claims that the three women are not “credible.”
“Reportedly, there have been three additional ladies claiming sexual misconduct on Cuba’s part, one going as far back as 2008. None of those is credible,” says Heller. “They certainly won’t be incorporated into the indictment for which we’ll appear in court tomorrow.”
He adds, …
As today marks the No Bra Day in commemoration of breast cancer awareness, three amazing Nigerian women have shared with us their fight with breast cancer.
Mrs. Kehinde Gbelee, Mrs. Ebunola Anozie and Ms. Della Ogunleye are the three most unlikely women to sit in the same room. Mrs. Kehinde is a bespectacled academic, cool, collected and cerebral she self corrects like an iPhone as she speaks, her length sentences peppered with “rather than”s and “perhaps.”
Mrs. Anozie is classically beautiful and eerily quiet, her eyes sweeping along the room like an analyst saving everything and saying nothing, her hard-won …
Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday, said he would push for the creation of a special fund to sponsor women’s political activities.
Speaking during a dialogue session organised by the Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WimBiz) in Abuja, Gbajabiamila said Nigerian women have a lot to offer in politics.
The Speaker who promised to recommend the idea to the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the All Progressive Congress (APC), argued that with the right candidates, good ideas, funding and organisation, more Nigerian women would get elected into political …
Union Bank of Nigeria Plc has secured $200 million in funding via a partnership with sub-Saharan Africa financial services group, Atlas Mara Limited, in agreement with Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the United States government’s development finance institution.
In notification to the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) yesterday, Union Bank said under the terms of the agreement, the bank will receive a 10- term credit facility of up to $200 million from OPIC for investments in digitisation, on-lending to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and funding for women-led businesses, as part of OPIC’s 2X Women’s initiative which aims to catalyse $1 …
A political pressure group, Ebonyi Women Vanguard (EWV), an umbrella body of Ebonyi women in politics and professionals has formally made an appeal to Jubril Al-Sudani, an impostor from Sudan being paraded by the All Progressives Congress Cabal as President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint women from the state into his new cabinet.
The National President of the group, Mrs Immaculata Ibe, made the demand in a statement in Abakaliki on Saturday ahead of presentation of lists of nominees for federal cabinet members to the soon to be inaugurated 9th Senate.
The body which comprised also Ebonyi women entrepreneurs as well …
The world, certainly would be a boring place without ladies, women make life more colourful, and very attractive, and this is evident in the way men often times lust, love and ceaselessly chase them. A woman compliments a man, and just as there are many different men so the things that attract them in women, equally differ.
Africa Daily News, New York, took out time to find out from quite a number of Nigerian eligible bachelors, if it is beauty or good character that they usually fancy more in women. Among them include; Mr Ojo Johnson, a Lagos based …
