Uganda: Women Demand Museveni Campaign Sanitary Pads
A group of 37 non-government organisations dealing in the promotion of girl-child rights have asked President Museveni to honour his campaign pledge and deliver the sanitary pads he promised during the presidential campaigns early this year. Addressing journalists yesterday, Elliot Orizaarwa Tumwijukye, the executive director Women and Girl Child Development Association (WEGCDA), said since the […]
Japanese Researcher Wins 2016 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Japanese researcher Yoshinori Ohsumi was yesterday announced winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. According to the official website of the Nobel Prize, Nobelprize.org, Yoshinori Ohsumi “has discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components.” Yoshinori Ohsumi is a professor at the Tokyo Institute of […]
Nigeria’s First Internship Fair : Building Talents Through Stutern
If we decide to engage, evaluate, analyse and butress on the ills in the society, then we will remain stagnant forever. The problems are strategic points to bring in surviving solutions to the populace. Its no news that youths complain about the state of unemployment in the country but the question is how do we […]
Stimulating The Lives of Women and Children
Commenting on how she has been able impact positively on the lives of the less privileged in the state in the last one year, Hajiya Hadiza explained that “It has not been easy but it has been rewarding and satisfying. We have succeeded in touching the lives of so many people in so many areas […]
Advocating for Equal Rights for the Disabled Community in Africa
In an effort to create equal opportunities for disabled people in Africa, the African Union declared the first decade (1999-2009) of the new millennium as the African Decade for Persons with Disabilities. This initiative led to the creation of the Africa Disability Alliance (ADA) in 2004 to establish an avenue for the disabled community in […]
Enjoying The Midlife With Understanding
Life Begins at Forty is a common phrase but how does the life kick off? How do you make it an effective phase and not get tired or shrink within menopause and all that getting older brings along? So, to kick off an effective monday, here is an article to help those in their mid-circle […]
Give The Girls Books Not Husbands
The Police Force in Rukwa Region has apprehended three parents for, allegedly, marrying off their school-going daughters. The venture, if proven beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law, could attract a stiff jail term. It is an irrational venture, to say the very least. National leaders have often spoken bitterly, and sometimes angrily in […]
Liberia Makes Parliamentry Seats Equal
Liberia ranks 40th out of 54 African countries for the number of women in parliament, and 149th out of 191 worldwide, U.N. Women said Women’s rights activists in Liberia on Friday welcomed a new law creating parliamentary seats reserved for women, young people and people with disabilities, in a country where women are poorly represented […]
Women Are Vital To Climate Change
London’s Waterloo Bridge over the River Thames is famously known as the “Ladies Bridge,” for it was built largely by women during the height of World War II. On another continent, women fighting a different war have built an equally remarkable structure: a 3,300-meter anti-salt dyke constructed by a women’s association in Senegal to reclaim […]
The Story Of South-Sudan’s Women Refugees
Maziku arrived at Uganda’s Nyumanzi Transit Centre in June this year six months pregnant and with only the dress she was wearing. “I wish I had managed to carry clothes. At least I would use those to cover my child,” said the 18-year-old. Like many other expectant mothers who fled South Sudan’s violence, she had […]
Female Farmers Suffer Most In Southern Africa Drought
Southern Africa has suffered through one of the worst droughts in decades and now small farmers face a long hungry season with growing food aid needs until the next harvest. Given the growing uncertainty of rainfall in this region, many are turning to irrigation as a key strategy for securing future harvests. The problem, however, […]
She She She -‘I Will Never Accept Harassment To Get To Where I Am’–Dancehall Diva
Sophia Byass, also known as the Dancehall Diva, managed by Muhammed Dem, has said that she would never accept harassment in The Gambia music industry to get to where she wants to be. Sophia was speaking in an interview yesterday held at The Point newspaper’s office. Sophia has been in the music industry for a […]
Sex Scandal: Reps Clear Colleagues Of Allegations
As the House of Representatives receive and debate the report of its joint committee on ethics and privileges and foreign relations on allegations of sexual misconduct against three lawmakers, there are indications that the legislators have been given a clean bill of health. New Telegraph reliably learnt that the three accused lawmakers have been cleared […]
Gandoki Sets A New World Record
Ace comedian Gandoki On Saturday 1st of October put Nigeria on the world map by becoming the first Comedian to perform non-stop comedy for 42 hours and 10 mins, he thus set a new world record for the Longest Stand-up comedy performance by an individual. The feat which started on Thursday 29th of October at […]
Chibok Girls: FG Has Not Foreclosed Negotiation With Boko Haram – Lai Mohammed
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has said government had not foreclosed negotiation with Boko Haram group on the release of Chibok girls but it wanted to ensure that the link were genuine and credible. Mohammed spoke at a live programme on Channel Television on Independence titled ‘Nigeria at 56: Recursive, Resilient, Rising.’ […]