Tag: women
Hard times await perpetrators of violent crime against women – IGP
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Solomon Arase has warned that hard times await perpetrators of violent crime against…
Ita-Giwa praises 2Face for celebrating women with his music
Senator Florence Ita-Giwa has commended Nigeria’s famous Pop singer, 2Face Idibia, for singing love songs and celebrating women with his…
Bayelsa APC primary: Vedelago solicits women support
Mrs Charity Vedelago, a governorship aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress in Bayelsa, has solicited women support for…
Troops rescue more women, children from Boko Haram camps
The Nigerian Army said on Tuesday that scores of women and children held captive by Boko Haram insurgents have been…
Reasons men die sooner than women
Few people can expect to live as long as Misao Okawa of Osaka, Japan, who recently died at the age…
Women kick over Buhari’s appointments
Some Nigerian women groups have expressed concern over what they see as the neglect of women in President Muhammadu Buhari’s…
Buhari excluding women from appointments – WIPF, FIDA
Some Nigerian women groups have expressed concern over what they see as the neglect of women in President Muhammadu Buhari’s…
COWLSO Mobilises 1500 women for National Conference
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) is mobilising over 1,500 women for this year’s National…
2 women arraigned over false obituary
The police in Benue on Monday arraigned two women, Martha Tina and Victoria Agber, in a Makurdi Magistrates’ Court for…
Taraba women demand 40% appointments from Gov. Ishaku
Mrs Virginia Bambur, the President, National Council for Women Societies (NCWS), Taraba chapter, said women in the state would not…
Age determines fertility rate of woman – Expert
Dr Ibrahim Wada, the Chairman of NISA Premier Hospital Jabi, Abuja, on Saturday said that age was a major determinant…
Aisha Buhari tells husband, governors to appoint more women
The wife of the President, Hajiya Aisha Buhari, has appealed to governments at all levels to ensure fair representation of…
Freed Nigerian women narrate Boko Haram ‘Hell’
(Reuters) – Boko Haram fighters killed older boys and men in front of their families before taking women and children…
Military hands over 275 children, women to NEMA
The Nigerian Military on Saturday formally handed over 275 women and children rescued from the terrorists’ stronghold– Sambisa forest– to…
PICTURES: Women, children rescued by Nigerian troops
Nigerian troops just rescued 234 women and children from Sambisa Forest the stronghold of Boko Haram. Here are some pictures…
Nigerian troops rescue another 234 women, children
A fresh set of 234 women and children held captive by the terrorist group Boko Haram, inside the Sambisa forest…
Welfare of ‘rescued’ women and girls is paramount – Amnesty
The ‘rescue’ of almost 300 women and girls by Nigeria’s military from Boko Haram is an encouraging development but only…
Challenges for PM Abe, as polls produce only 4 female mayors
Local elections in Japan produced just four female mayors of the 222 positions up for grabs, results showed Monday, underlining…
Women in Zamfara troop out en masse to vote
Several women in Gusau, the Zamfara capital, on Saturday trooped out to various voting units to cast their votes for…
Aisha Buhari promises women a better life
Nigeria’s incoming First Lady, Mrs Aisha Buhari, said women would enjoy a better deal under the President-elect, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari,…
Too few women at the top, says Clinton, Gates
Three women with global clout — Hillary Clinton, Melinda Gates and Chelsea Clinton — released a sweeping report on Monday…
Qatar women ignore social constraints to launch start-ups
Qatari women are increasingly defying social constraints and joining the workforce in the booming energy-rich country, which offers support for…
Fear, violence, kidnapping: life for women under Boko Haram
By Coumba Sylla/AFP When Boko Haram attacks made life at home unbearable, Rebecca Samuel was confronted with a stark choice…
First Lady harps on involvement of youths, women in governance
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan on Friday stressed the need for more women and youths to get involved in…
Women Protest Against Landgrabbers In Ikorodu
Damilare Okunola Some female indigenes of Ilu Oloye in Ogun State in their 60s have stripped in protest over the…
Kukah urges women to caution family against electoral violence
The Cathoilic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Rev. Fr Mathew Kukah, on Sunday urged women to caution their husbands and children…
Vote for Jonathan, he will carry women along, says Patience
The First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan, on Friday urged Nigerian women not to vote for any politician who would not…
Center trains 5,000 girls, women in IT
An NGO, Women’s Technology and Empowerment Center (W.TEC) on Saturday said that it had trained over 5,000 women and girls…
‘Most Women Don’t Care About My Polygamous Life’
After forty-three years in the music business, King Wasiu Ayinde Anifowose, popularly known as K1 The Ultimate, seems not ready…
Campaign To End Violence Against Women Begins In Lagos
By Simon Ateba Activists met on Tuesday in Lagos to say no to all forms of violence against women as…