Pastor, Your Wife Has Needs Too
Ever wondered how you know when someone needs encouragement? Here’s a simple test. It works every time. Check and see if they have a pulse. Pastor, one of the members in your congregation whose heart beats regularly for you is your wife. She’s your No. 1 fan and your No. 2 responsibility after your relationship […]
Rihanna Partners With Clara Lionel Foundation To Help Girls Education In Malawi
Fenty Beauty and CLF have partnered on a new limited-edition makeup highlighter and Diamond Ball sweepstakes to raise critical funding for CLF. On August 1, FENTY Beauty, Robyn “Rihanna” Fenty’s namesake cosmetic brand, announced a new partnership with the Clara Lionel Foundation to help fund mission critical work in education and emergency responsiveness. With the […]
After A Terrible Law Suit And Miscarriage, It Wasn’t Over, I Came Back Stronger – Samantha Wasser
In the Women Entrepreneur series My Worst Moment, female founders provide a firsthand account of the most difficult, gut-wrenching, almost-made-them-give-up experience they’ve had while building their business — and how they recovered. A lawsuit and a miscarriage marked the beginning of a tumultuous two years for Samantha Wasser, fast-casual restaurant developer and co-founder of the […]
Women Should Participate Immensely In Elections -Charles Munyaneza
Charles Munyaneza, the Executive Secretary of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), has urged women and girls to massively participate in the upcoming parliamentary polls. He made the call yesterday during a meeting with members of Girls Leaders Foundation, an association that gathers girls and women in leadership in four secondary schools and 30 universities. Munyaneza […]
The Media Must Improve How It Covers Gender-Based Violence
Recently, various Kenyan outlets have run stories that are dis-empowering to women and girls. After a man raped a female student, one newspaper reported the rape as ‘stranger than fiction’ because two other girls that had been assaulted did not scream or raise an alarm. Another story focused on how male teachers are afraid of […]
Police Nabs Mad Woman With Human Parts At Ijanikin
The ‘madwoman’ who was arrested on Monday with decomposing corpses and other human parts under Cele Nicer Bridge in Ijanikin, Ojo area of Lagos State, has said she, at times, posed as a sex worker to get victims for her human parts business, which she has been operating for nine years. Preliminary investigation also revealed […]
Theresa May Visits Nigeria
The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has arrived the Presidential Villa, Abuja, for a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Ms May, who alighted from her official grey SUV with registration number 138 CMD just after 1:00 p.m. was received by President Muhammadu Buhari and other officials of government. She shook hands with Mr Buhari and […]
Men Urged To Call Out Abusive Men In Other To Fight Domestic Violence
Men must not let other men get away with being abusive, and should call each other out on it instead, said one of the men participating in a planned march in Khayelitsha, Cape on Monday. “We seem to think that it [an abuser] is just a monster from this alternate universe, but it is men […]
Teenage Girls Getting Married In IDP Camps For Shelter, Food And Money
On 1 January 2018, suspected semi-nomadic herdsmen from the Fulani ethnic group invaded several villages in Benue state, in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, and killed more than 100 villagers. Subsequently, more attacks followed and the death toll rose at an alarming rate. After the attacks, about 300 000 persons were displaced, according to data […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May, Hails President Mnangawa For His Clear Vision
British Prime Minister Theresa May yesterday hailed President Mnangagwa for his clear vision for Zimbabwe and commended him for pledging to set up a commission of inquiry into the violence that rocked Harare on August 1. PM May, who is in South Africa, made the remarks in an interview with that country’s eNCA television last […]
Forced Evictions Render Thousands Homeless In Somalia
More than 200 000 Somalis have been forcibly evicted from their homes since the beginning of the year. This is almost double the 120 000 people evicted during the same period last year. Among those evicted are tens of thousands of people who fled drought, flooding and violence in recent months. Evelyn Aero, Norwegian Refugee […]
U.S. Plans Bilateral Free Trade Agreements With African Countries
The U.S. government has said that it was currently looking for African countries that would be interested in bilateral free trade agreements with it. Peter Haas, the U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Negotiation told journalists in a teleconference that it was a big deal for the U.S. to be looking towards Africa. […]
The All Female Crew Of South African Airways
South African Airways (SAA) commemorated women’s month by using its capable female cockpit and cabin staffers to operate an international flight from Johannesburg to São Paulo, Brazil, by an all-female crew. According to its website SAA says women currently make up 38.96% of all staff, (24.85% general staff; 0.83% cockpit crew and 13.29% cabin crew). There […]
Teenage Rape Survivor Seeks For Justice
Thousands have signed a petition to Morocco’s king in support of a rape survivor. Despite a new law to tackle violence against women, rights groups say few survivors “will be able to get protection from their abusers. As of Monday afternoon, more than 15,000 people had signed a petition to Moroccan King Mohammed VI to […]
Reggae Icon Ras Kimono Laid To Rest In Delta State
THE remains of late reggae legend, Mr Augustine Onwubuya popularly known as Ras Kimono were yesterday laid to rest at his hometown, Onicha-Olona in Aniocha North Local Government Area of Delta State amidst tears, wailing and eulogies. The body of the raggae artiste which was contained in a Rastafarian coloured casket, was lowered at exactly […]