THE House of Representatives has proposed a constitutional amendment to reserve 10 per cent of seats in the National Assembly…
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CONSTRUCTION is booming in Somalia’s capital city and as Mogadishu literally rises from the ashes of its violent past it…
ABOUT thirty persons, mostly women and children, have been killed as a result of Boko Haram activities in Chibok and…
MALI’s military government says it is investigating allegations that soldiers “coldly executed” at least 24 civilians in the north of…
MANY women and young children have been reported killed in Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza, with nearly 50 people killed…
THE Group Chairman, United Bank for Africa (UBA) and Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), Tony Elumelu, has passionately called for…
THE Dean of the Faculty of Arts, National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Prof. Iyabode O.A. Nwabueze, has said that…
SOME aggrieved women in the Uba-Oka Akoko community in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State have staged…
MELINDA French Gates has announced that she will donate $1bn over the next two years to people and organisations working…
GOVERNOR Abba Kabir Yusuf of Kano State has initiated a monthly empowerment program providing N50,000 to 5,200 women in the…
GAZANS are feeling the toll of seven months of war, with women bearing the brunt as hospitals face overcrowding and…
IN a commendable move to uplift women across Kano State, Governor Alhaji Abba Kabir Yusuf has launched an empowerment program…
THE UN agency championing gender equality, UN Women, has said the Gaza conflict “is also a war on women”, who…
PROTESTING women on Friday afternoon burned down the house of the District Head of Bokkos town in Bokkos Local Government…
SPAIN’s world champions and their Swedish opponents on Friday held up a banner with the slogan “It’s over” in protest…
THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has pledged to initiate projects and programmes to develop the capacity of women and…
THE Taliban government have banned women from visiting the Band-e-Amir national park in Bamiyan province. Afghanistan’s acting minister of virtue…
SEPARATISTS gunmen in Cameroon’s restive north-western region have kidnapped over 30 women and injured an unspecified number of others, officials…
TRAVELLERS plying the Jos-Abuja highway were stranded on Wednesday as angry women and youths of Ta-Hoss community in the Riyom…
THE International Centre for Islamic Culture and Education (ICICE) has offered free medical treatment to over 700 indigent women, children…