Safe Haven Turned Into Nightmare For Somali Woman
The memory comes back to her with certain smells. The smell of fire. The smell of sweat. Fardowso begins to tremble because she cannot forget what those men have done to her. Fardowso means heaven – it’s not her real name. It is the name she has chosen to stay anonymous. “They took everything away […]
FG Moves Cargo Delivery From Lagos Ports To Ogun State
THE Federal Government has concluded plans to make importers take delivery of their cargoes cleared from Lagos ports at Papalanto in Ogun State via rail lines. Disclosing this at the just concluded World Maritime day celebration in Lagos, Minister of Transport, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, said government has made provisions for the supply of 100 wagons […]
‘More Than 200 Million Females Are Carrying Pains Of Genital Mutilation Globally’
No fewer than 200 million females are carrying the negative effects of genital mutilation across the globe. Many of this female population size, according to experts, are carrying lifetime infectious diseases like HIV, suffered barrenness, hemorrhagic diseases, or broken homes, due to sexual dis-satisfaction and other associated problems due to the removal of their genitals. […]
Physical Threats Put Women Off Life In Politics But At What Cost?
Faced with escalating violence, a lack of funding, and locked out of male-dominated networks, many women are reluctant to enter politics with growing concerns that a drive to get women into power globally is moving far too slowly, experts said. Only about one in four parliamentarians worldwide is a woman, less than one in five […]
Ways To Profit With A Purpose
Doing well is hard enough for most entrepreneurs. How on earth are they supposed to make their business a force for good, too? Six altruistic members of The Oracles share how you can make the world a better place while building a wildly successful company. 1. Start today, no matter what. The best advice is: start today, […]
WFP Begins Harvesting, Donates Rice Thresher To Women’s Group
The World Food Program (WFP) on last Friday kicked off the Magarma Farm Rice Harvest in Kpekor, rural Montserrado County. The rice harvesting, done in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA), brought together local farmers and partners. WFP deputy country director Asif Bhutto, said he was impressed with the level of work done over […]
Sexual Assault: Beverly Hills Police Investigating Weinstein, Toback
The Beverly Hills Police Department said Tuesday it is investigating “multiple complaints” against disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein and director James Toback, who face numerous allegations of unwanted sexual encounters. Accounts of abuse by Weinstein that were published last month in The New York Times and The New Yorker encouraged others to speak out, unleashing a […]
Woman Tortured And Killed By Her Boyfriend In Namibia
A 34-year-old woman tragically died on Sunday morning in the Erongo Region after she was tortured and sprayed with goat tick/flea medicine, allegedly by her 36-year-old boyfriend. The woman, who was identified as Magdelenda Ganes, was severely beaten with thorn-tree branches by her boyfriend after he beat her up using his fists. The couple, parents […]
Tete Women Of Western Mozambique Urged To Use Family Planning
The permanent secretary of the Tete provincial government, in western Mozambique, Lina Portugal, on Monday urged Mozambican women to adopt family planning methods to ensure spacing between births. She was speaking in Tete city at the ceremony to launch National Health Week in the province. During the week the Tete authorities hope to reach 435,000 […]
Rant Of The Day – EveryBody Is 18
Welcome to the rant column. I will like to apologise for being absent for a while now, I had a very disturbing cut but I am good now. So, we are back to rant. Now, there’s something I have noticed on social media and it’s becoming really annoying to me anyway, and I think I […]
Are You Self-Aware?
Entrepreneurial success stories are few and far between. Only 30 percent of businesses survive a decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Business Employment Dynamics. Chris Cavallini, the founder and CEO of national meal-service company Nutrition Solutions, has done more than just built a business that can survive. Nutrition Solutions does more than $10 million in annual revenue and their […]
FG Engages 18,000 Unemployed Youths In Skill Acquisition
THE Federal Government has concluded arrangement to engage about 18,000 unskilled/unemployed youths in skill acquisition training scheme aimed at reducing the rate of unemployed youths in the country. Flaging-off the scheme in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State, Minister of Labor and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, said: “We are witnessing the flag-off of the Sustainable Agricultural Development […]
Kyenjojo Girls Accuse Boda Men, Teachers Of Sexual Harassment
Village or town, the vulnerability and challenges of the girl child in developing countries are the same. The abuses and the abusers are similar too. And for Kyenjojo schoolgirls, the abusers are their own teachers and boda boda cyclists. The latter group not only woos girls with money and impregnates the ‘willing’ ones, but also […]
Organization for Women And Children Prepare Women For 2023 Elections
As part of efforts to ensure increased female participation in politics, a local nongovernmental organization (NGO) Organization for Women and Children (ORWOCH) yesterday held a roundtable discussion with women groups and representative candidates who did not win the October 10 Presidential and Legislative polls. The roundtable discussion held at the organization’s headquarters in Fiamah, Sinkor, […]
COWLSO Tasks Women On Nation Building, Personal Growth
The Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO), yesterday charged women to brace up, invest vigorously to increase their incomes and strive to be more successful than their spouses. They gave the charge at the 17th annual National Women Conference with the theme: She Creates, She Transforms. The participants at the conference maintained that […]