Duke, Others Call For Action On Gender Parity As Senate Rejects Gender Parity Bill
Owanari Bobmanuel Duke, Chairman, Child Survival and Development Organisation of Nigeria has called for advocacy and action on gender parity. She made the call [on Tuesday, 15 March] at a symposium hosted by the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ) and the Centre for Black and African Art and Culture (CBAAC) in Lagos focused […]
National Assembly Postpones Passage of 2016 Budget
The Senate yesterday postponed passage of the 2016 budget for the third time. Our correspondent reports that the joint appropriation committees of both chambers had fixed yesterday for submission of their report on the budget and its passage today. At yesterday’s sitting, the chairman of the Committee on Appropriation, Senator Danjuma Goje, was conspicuously absent […]
Egypt president vows to find and punish killers of Italian student
Egypt will spare no effort to find and punish those who tortured and killed an Italian student in Cairo, the country’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said an interview published on Wednesday. Giulio Regeni, 28, a Cambridge University researcher, was found in a ditch on the outskirts of Cairo on Feb. 3. His body was bruised […]
Obama chooses Merrick Garland for Supreme Court
President Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland to fill the vacancy of Justice Antonin Scalia on Wednesday, setting up an election year battle with Republicans who have vowed they would not meet with his candidate. Speaking at a Rose Garden ceremony on Wednesday, Obama said that Garland was “one of America’s sharpest legal minds” and “uniquely prepared […]
CSW60: Toyin Saraki’s Wellbeing Foundation makes a case for adolescent girls.
The sixtieth session of the Commission on the Status of Women is presently taking place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and will run till March 24, 2016. It has in attendance representatives of member States, UN entities and ECOSOC- accredited non-governmental organizations (NGO) from all regions of the World. Wellbeing Foundation Africa, […]
President’s wife declares harems centers of education
The Turkish first lady has praised the Ottoman-era harem as an educational center that prepared women for life, the latest in a string of controversial remarks by Turkish dignitaries on women’s roles. At a speech delivered during a meeting on the mothers of Ottoman rulers, Emine Erdogan, wife of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, said that […]
Senegal Presidential adviser to ‘Post’: Female politicians highlight country’s success
The Théodore Monod African Art Museum in Dakar, Senegal, is hosting a 30-year exposition and retrospective on photography of African women by photographer Angèle Etoundi Essamba. The photos in black and white and color show women facing many of the struggles of rural life in Africa. Drawing water, paddling a canoe, village life, agriculture. But […]
UN inquiry to probe attack at South Sudan camp
A high-level board of inquiry will investigate how United Nations peacekeepers responded to an attack at their camp in South Sudan where tens of thousands of civilians were sheltering, a UN spokesman said on Friday. Gunmen in army uniforms stormed the camp in the northeastern town of Malakal on February 17 and 18, firing on […]
Women who mess up in gov’t are not given second chances – Ursula
Ablekuma West MP Ursula Owusu-Ekuful says she has noticed a trend that women who goof in President Mahama’s administration do not get a second chance unlike their male counterparts. The gender activist explained men who mess up in government are ‘rehabilitated’ and kept at the presidency as Presidential Staffers. Listing top women officials who have […]
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Egypt jails Facebook administrator for 3 years after unfaithful wives comments
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced a prominent Facebook user to three years in prison with hard labour after he asserted on television that many married women in the conservative country were unfaithful. Taymour el-Sobky was arrested last month and accused by prosecutors of slandering Egyptian women and damaging their honour. His comments on a […]
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