Pupil Killed As School Building Collapses In Benue
A seven-year- old pupil of Victory International Nursery and Primary School, Daudu in Guma Local Government Area of Benue state has died after a section of a block of two classrooms collapsed. It was gathered that the incident, which occurred on Tuesday, also injured four other pupils. It was gathered that the building collapsed during […]
Kenya: Nurses Go On Strike Again After Working for Barely Two Months
Barely two months after calling off a nationwide strike, nurses are back on the streets. This is despite signing a collective bargaining agreement with governors and the Ministry of Health in December. Part of the deal was that nurses in job group M and above would get Sh15,000 in special allowances while those in job […]
There Is Hope For Women’s Land Rights, In Mali
Wearing a long white tunic covered with bright-coloured patterns, Aminata Berthe bends to water a plot of lettuce with a can in this village near Bamako, the Malian capital. “I’m the first one in my home to wake up and the last to go to bed,” she said, pausing to catch her breath. She has […]
Whether Migrant Or Not, They Are Women.
International migration is a complex phenomenon dealing with overlapping issues relating to the human rights of migrants, mixed migration flows, international protection, smuggling and trafficking, as well as other push and pull factors affecting migration. But, the need of the hour is a rights-based comprehensive approach placing the human rights of migrants at the center […]
Rant Of The Day – When Will You Marry?
I think the pressure to get married is always on the girl child, well, it’s understandable though because medically, her wellness for child bearing is limited but! When that question pops up, it’s not about her wellness.,it’s more about the unnecessary calculation that the society has placed on her. A friend of mine called me […]
Malawi : Charity Group Set To Raise Funds For Reuseable Sanitary Pads For Girls
Rotaract Club of Blantyre has enlisted services of Patience Namadingo, Theo Thomson and Suffix in a bid to raise funds for reusable sanitary pads for school-going girls following concerns of high rate of dropouts. Most school-going girls in Malawi do drop out of school due to, among other reasons, lack of sanitary pads especially during […]
Gunmen Attack UN Team In Nigeria
Gunmen have attacked a United Nations monitoring team at the Nigeria-Cameroon border, killing five people. Three Nigerians were among those killed, a UN statement said Wednesday. “According to preliminary reports, at around 14:00 hours, yesterday (Tuesday), an unknown armed group attacked a UN Technical Monitoring Team, killing five individuals – a UN independent contractor, three […]
Fake Jamb Forms Circulates In Imo State
Several families have reportedly been fleeced of huge sum of money by suspected fraudsters, as sale of fake 2017 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, registration forms gain currency in Imo State. Confirming the development, yesterday, in Owerri, Chairman, Computer Based Test Centre Proprietors Association of Nigeria, CPAN, Chidiebere Egboh, said: “Fraudsters who run unauthorized […]
Fired For Defending What Is Right – Sally Yates
As a young prosecutor in the late 1990s, Sally Q. Yates sat at a conference table with a former sheriff and began picking away at his story. With an F.B.I. agent watching, Ms. Yates soon had the lawman in knots about a deposition. “I watched him as she broke him down, and he confessed that […]
Sensational Movies By Women – The Story Of Felicia Henderson
In the small world of television shows with predominantly black casts, Felicia D. Henderson has an admirable track record. She was a writer and producer for the 1990s sitcoms “Moesha” and “Sister, Sister” and she developed “Soul Food,” the underrated Showtime family drama whose 74 episodes in the early 2000s have made it the longest-running […]
From The Office To The Farm
The Kaduru’s grow passion fruits in Fort Portal as a business and as means to boost women and girls incomes Rebecca Kaduru and her husband grows passion fruits on their farm in Fort Portal as a business and as means to boost women and girls incomes. Rebecca Kaduru thought she had found success in the […]
Liberia: Gender Ministry Child Welfare Officer Wanted for Alleged Rape
Child Welfare Officer at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Francis K. Welfare assigned in Maryland County is on the run for alleged rape. Wallace reportedly raped and impregnated a 17-year-old girl who was staying with him in the county. He absconded after the issue was reported to the Police. According to a […]
El-Rufai Vows To Prosecute Perpetrators Of Southern Kaduna Crisis
Governor Nasir El-Rufai has vowed to prosecute those behind the pogrom in southern Kaduna, just as he exonerated himself of any complicity, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The governor, who spoke while receiving the Kabiru Gaya-led Senate Ad-hoc Committee on Southern Kaduna yesterday at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House, described his accusers as […]
First Ladies Vow To Fight ‘Barbaric’ Genital Mutilation In West Africa
The first ladies of Niger, Burkina Faso and Benin promised on Monday to “end the scourge of female genital mutilation” (FGM) in their countries amid warnings the practice had gone underground in Benin. “FGM is a barbaric practice,” Niger’s Lalla Malika Issoufou told an international conference on FGM in Rome. She said Niger’s president, Mahamadou […]
No Work, No Pay – Govt Warns Striking Polytechnic Lecturers
The Federal Government on Tuesday in Abuja indicated that it would implement the ‘No work, No pay’ rule on striking polytechnic lecturers. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this although he also appealed to the lecturers, ASUP, to suspend their 5-day warning strike. Mr. Ngige stated these in a statement made available […]