Tag: Female
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I stayed in Sambisa for three years – Says arrested female bomber
A 19-year-old lady, Shaidatu Adamu, has been arrested by troops of the Nigerian Army attached to the Operation Lafiya Dole, while allegedly trying to detonate her suicide bomb vest in the Gonikalachari area of Borno State. According to reports gathered by TheNewsGuru, TNG, Adamu was nabbed by troops of the 251 Task Force Battalion, Maiduguri,…
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Male surpasses female in new INEC CVR report
In preparations to the 2019 General Elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday released data of its continuous voters registration (CVR) exercise. TheNewsGuru (TNG) reports a gender analysis of the data shows that 7,386,583 females and 6,247,831 males have been registered so far, resulting in a total of 13,634,414 new registrants. According to…
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Trump pledges $50m for female entrepreneurs
U.S. President Donald Trump promised 50 million dollars to a World Bank Fund for female entrepreneurs in the developing world during the Group of 20 summits in Hamburg on Saturday. The fund would “transform millions of lives, millions and millions,” Trump said, praising women with entrepreneurial spirit and joking his business career would have been…
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Egypt gets first female Governor
For the first time in Egypt’s history a woman has been appointed as a provincial governor. According to BBC report, Nadia Ahmed Abdou has been sworn into office in the Governorate of Beheira, in the Nile Delta. She’s an engineer with a long record of public service and her foerce decision-making powers have seen…
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NOUN female staff killed as fire engulfs apartment in Lagos
The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA said it received a distress alert at about 3.10 am on Thursday for a fire incident that led to the death of a woman identified as a staff of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. The incident occured at No. 7 Jemigbon Street, Apollo Estate, off…