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FAS Hosts Empowering Women In Agriculture In Addis Ababa

A High Level Breakfast Meeting was organized on January 27, 2018, by Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) on the theme Empowering Women in Agriculture (EWA) at the margins of the 30th African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa. Chaired by Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of Nigeria, the event was attended by […]

Colours In Fashion And Their Meanings

HAPPY NEW MONTH!! Aren’t we happy the January is finally over? It overstayed its welcome, dragging its feet and making payday seem farther than it is. Now our bank accounts are smiling and all’s right with the world again. It is the month of love and the theme for this month is COLOURS. Colour is […]

72 Primary Schools In Hoima Risk Closure Over Lack Of Sanitary Facilities

More than half the number of government aided primary schools in Hoima District risk closure because of absence of sanitary facilities. It has emerged that most of the schools have their pit latrines filled up and other sanitary facilities are also lacking, putting the lives of both the learners and teachers in danger. The district […]

INEC Bemoans Decline In Women Participation In Electoral Process

The National Commissioner at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Dr. Adekunle Ogunmola has expressed worry over the decline of women participation in the electoral process. Ogunmola said this during a strategic meeting with gender focused Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) on women participation in the 2019 general elections in Enugu on Monday. The national commissioner, […]

Museveni Advises Girls To Produce 4 Children For Better Management

 President Yoweri Museveni has advised young girls in the country to limit themselves by producing only four children who are easier to manage in the current economy. “You young girls, don’t produce more than four children, it will weaken your bodies and many children are not easy to manage and nurture,” Museveni said on Friday […]

Have Fun Time In Your Schedule – Barbara Corcoran

From real-estate mogul to angel investor on the hit series Shark Tank, Corcoran Group founder Barbara Corcoran has seen many a business rise and fall. Her own success story is one of scrappiness and external drive. Corcoran learned a solid work ethic from an early age. Her mother was a homemaker that kept a household of […]

Hire And Empower Women

1. Hire and empower women.  Both men and women drove this point home throughout the week in Davos, from activist Malala Yousafzai to Alibaba founder and chairman Jack Ma.Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained that women face a variety of barriers to career success, and that providing the same pay to men and women is just one […]

Mali’s Mounting Crisis Sows Insecurity And Fear

From the air, Timbuktu, the fabled city of gold – once a key Arab-African trading post on the trans-Saharan caravan route, a lush oasis, a centre of Islamic culture and learning – is almost obscured by swirling clouds of dust, its pale mud houses and sandy streets barely distinguishable from the encroaching desert. Timbuktu today […]

Nigerian-British Actor, Oyelowo, Awards Scholarship to Chibok Girls

Nigerian-British actor David Oyelowo, says he has granted leadership scholarship to five freed Chibok girls who were abducted by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014. The Oscar nominated actor, born in England to Nigerian parents, is best known for his portrayal of Martin Luther King in the award winning movie ‘Selma’ in 2014. Oyelowo announced […]

Uneducated Girls Risk Pregnancy, Illegal Marriage

MORE than 400 million girls, especially in Africa, will fail to attend secondary school by 2030 if governments do not make funding the education of female children a top priority. The girls risk premature pregnancies and child marriage. This is the warning of children’s rights organisations ahead of world leaders meeting in Senegal for the […]