Tag: Women
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Women’s W/Cup: Players to get $30,000 each as prize money
Players at the Women’s World Cup will be guaranteed at least 30,000 dollars each after FIFA decided to disburse some of the prize money to individuals rather than national federations. All 23 members of the winning team will take home 270,000
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Omisore commends APWEN for empowering women, pupils
The National Secretary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Iyiola Omisore has commended the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), supporting women, pupils for a better society.
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10th NASS: Tinubu, APC under fire over zoning decision
As the race for the leadership of the 10th National Assembly gathers momentum, a group under the aegis of Women For Yari Movement, has advised the President-Elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and the National Working Committee (NWC), of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to withdraw it earlier decision of zoning
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Women will be well represented in my administration – Tinubu
The President-elect, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has assured that women would be properly represented in his administration. Tinubu said this on Tuesday in Abuja at the public presentation of a book titled,
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10th Assembly: 231 women groups want Senate Presidency, Deputy or Speaker
Over 231 women organisations under the aegis of Womanifesto are demanding the inclusion of women either as Senate President, Deputy Senate President or Speaker of the House of Representatives. The coalition declared that since gender equity was critical to sustainable development, Nigeria cannot afford to be left behind. The CSOs which constitute members of Womanifesto…
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Why women should dance more – Kaffy
A Nigerian dancer, Ms Kafayat Shafau, popularly known by her stage name, Kaffy, has urged women to cultivate the habit of dancing regularly. She said this was helpful in reducing stress, keeping fit and being more productive in their various walks of life.
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Nigerians Call For More Women In Governance, Say It Will Reduce Corruption
Exasperated by rising corruption in Africa’s most populous country, stakeholders in the fight against corruption in Nigeria have identified adequate inclusion of women in governance as an antidote to public sector corruption while lamenting the government’s effort in implementing the revised National Gender Policy (NGP). The call for the inclusion of more women in governance…
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NASENI, Nasarawa govt. hands over 1,150 units of cooking stove to women
The Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Engr.Abdullahi A. Sule has urged other Agencies and parastatals of Governments both at the Federal and State levels to emulate the development strides going-on at the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) to bring development directly to the people. At the occasion of the second phase of…
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Women deserve better treatment – By Francis Ewherido
I am not into women liberation the way it is seen in the Western world. For some westerners, the African culture is inferior, so we should scrap it and replace it with the Western culture. I was born in Africa and grew up in Urhobo land, to be specific. I am a typical Urhobo man,…
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Suicide: Women and Their killer Tongues – By Michael West
Most of the time, I appreciate men that stay married over the years not because they are better than their peers who have lost their homes to separation or divorce but because they are able to endure acidic tongues of their wives in moments of anger. Women are not known to be pugilistic like men…