TGNP Festival To Award Female Leaders
Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan will award five women for their contribution to the country’s development during this year’s gender festival to be hosted by Tanzania Gender Networking Programme (TGNP). Others, who will be honoured for their notable contribution during the festival dubbed “The Transformation of Oppressive Systems for Gender Equality and Sustainable Development” are […]
These Female Entrepreneurs Created A Fake Male Co-Founder To Work Around Sexism
From the scandals involving gender bias at Uber and Google and the resignations of two prominent investors as a result of accusations of sexual harassment, the last few months have seen an intense focus about how issues of workplace sexism and discrimination are addressed, especially in Silicon Valley. The sexism at play in the tech industry can manifest in a number […]
State Fails To Protect Women In Muslim Marriages
There is a need for “coherent clear legislation” to provide for the protection of women in Muslim marriages, the Women’s Legal Centre told the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday. Advocate Nazreen Bawa, for the centre, said there was an “unmet constitutional obligation”, GroundUp reported. The centre is asking the court for married Muslim women […]
Majority Of Women Are Smallholder Farmers, Petty Traders
A majority of women entrepreneurs in Africa still engage in small-scale farming and petty businesses, as they continue to battle customs and traditions that prohibit them from owning assets, especially land, and therefore lack collateral to access credit. Many of them lack financial literacy due to low levels or lack of education. Even where they […]
Why Entrepreneurs Should Question Everything And Everyone
So much of the work that goes into building relationships — friends, mentors, business partners — takes place around a dining table. Trying to make a first impression is stressful enough, but for many people with food allergies and sensitivities there is another layer of fear there: waiting to see if something wrong might land […]
Geita Girls’ Monthly Nightmare Force Them Out Of Classes
Girls in Geita District are caught between a rock and a hard surface. Despite grappling with cultural norms and values that reduce them to mere sources of income upon marriage while on the other hand strive to dodge early pregnancies and marriage traps; they are disheartened by lack of sanitary facilities in schools. It is […]
Dynamic Ways To Serve Your Clients
1. Always Available Wins The Game Clients like to know that people are available to them — always be available to respond to their needs, whether tTThey are asking about shipment dates or product features. Answer phone calls, emails and texts as quickly as possible, but certainly within 24 hours. If a client is asking about […]
Udofia Pumps Eagles’ Spirit With $20,000 For Each Goal In 2nd Leg Cracker Against Cameroon
Businessman Aka Udofia has offered Super Eagles 20,000 dollars for each goal scored in Monday’s 2018 FIFA World Cup second leg qualifying cracker against Cameroon. In a statement from the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), the young businessman from Akwa Ibom made the promise as he briefly greeted players and officials inside the chartered ARIK Bombadier […]
Insurgents Arrested In Kano As Ganduje Calls For Vigilance
SOME suspected insurgents were yesterday arrested in Kano by security operatives. They were immediately moved to Abuja for interrogation, Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has announced. Urging people in the state to be more security conscious and vigilant, the governor said: “The security agents also confiscated arms and communication gadgets from the alleged terrorists, even as […]
Lt Gen Mgwenya Urges Women To Be At The Forefront In The Fight Against Gender Based Violence
The Deputy National Commissioner for Human Resource Management in the South African Police Service, Lieutenant General Bonang Mgwenya, has lauded the organisation’s women for working tirelessly during women’s month to ensure that perpetrators of Gender-Based Violence are brought to book through ‘Operation Basadi’. She was addressing female officers, as well as police trainees, at the […]
UK Commends Nigeria For Tackling Piracy In Gulf Of Guinea
The United Kingdom (UK) Foreign Secretary, Mr. Boris Johnson yesterday in Lagos commended the role Nigeria was playing in tackling piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, pointing out that a lot of the UK’s oil came from the Nigerian Waters. The Foreign Secretary said this during his visit to the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Unity […]
Women Farmers Receive Material Support In Eritrea
The National Union of Eritrean Women (NUEW) branch in the Northern Red Sea Region has provided women farmers with a water motor pump. Indicating that the material support is a continuation of the relentless effort being exerted to improve the livelihoods of women in general and that of women farmers in particular, Ms. Jimi’a Raki, […]
Super Eagles Stun Cameroon As They Lead W/Cup Qualifying Group
Chelsea ace Victor Moses and Chinese-based Odion Ighalo starred as Nigeria trounced Cameroon 4-0 on Friday to take a big step towards qualifying for the 2018 World Cup. The Super Eagles moved up to nine points from three matches in Group B in Africa zone qualifying, while Cameroon remain on two points. Both teams clash again on […]
Getting Initiation Rites Out Of Malawi School Calendar
Keeping girls in school has become a global agenda. Yet stories abound in the country of initiation ceremonies forcing girls to miss class. Mangochi, on the shores of Lake Malawi, is one of the hotspots for chinamwali, a rite of passage to adulthood which forces girls as young as six to be absent from school. […]
Diamond Bank Partners WWB, MTN To Deepen Women’s Financial Inclusion
Diamond Bank Plc, in collaboration with mobile telecomm network MTN and three other financial services provider: JazzCash, Bima and Women World Banking (WWB) have converged to brainstorm on how to attract more women to digital finance banking in Nigeria and boost financial inclusion through products development. With support from Women’s World Banking and other partners, […]