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AXA Mansard, a global insurance and asset management firm, says it has provided financial and capacity development support for over 200 female small and medium-scale enterprises in Nigeria. A statement from the firm said this was part of…

Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) has so far disbursed the sum of N3.924 billion to 392,490 women and youths across Kano, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Lagos, Niger, Nasarawa, Sokoto and Katsina state as part of its micro-grant programme…

Over $20 million was realised at the launch of the African Women Leadership Fund (AWLF) at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to support and provide technical assistance for African women fund managers. About $80 million is still required to reach the…

Almost half of all women have a back-up plan in place in the event of separation from their current partner, a study has said, Daily Mail reports. This basically implies that a woman has another man in mind as her Plan-B i the event of a…

Two pieces of very disturbing news involving working women and menstruation have emerged in India in recent months. Periods have long been a taboo in the country, menstruating women are believed to be impure and are still excluded from…

JUWE OLUWAFEMI 'DILI When in 2017, during a-three day official visit to Germany, and in public glare, most instructively, before the entire world, President Muhammadu Buhari while responding to an interviewer’s question, had stated that…

by Paul Nwabuikwu  Abuja is getting dirtier, more disorganized and less safe but the FCT authorities are more interested in harassing and arresting women for the crime of going out for a drink at night. Over the past few days, scores…

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that women and youths would not be disappointed in the next four years of his administration. Buhari gave the assurance on Saturday night during a victory dinner organised for the All Progressives…

Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, Mr. John Ugbe, and Chairman of The Punch Newspapers, Mrs. Angela Emuwa, have advised women on how to make progress in the workplace. The duo gave the advice in Lagos on Thursday during a fireside…

The Technical Adviser on Gender, UN Women (UN Women), Mrs. Rhoda Zira-Dia,  on Thursday urged women to get involved in peace-building by checking acts that could trigger crises in their communities. She gave the advice in Gombe after the…