Gender

Tosin Durotoye is a woman of many parts. She is a techie, social impact leader, global speaker and a Forbes-featured equity and diversity advocate.

Women have been urged to prioritise building bridges within themselves to enable them deliver their primary role to society

Focused on ending Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), child marriage, teenage pregnancies and all forms of harmful practices associated with adolescent girls in Osun State, the Initiative for Girls’ Right and Health Development (IGRHD) recently engaged school teachers, counsellors, and proprietors as strategic partners to achieve this goal. Speaking at a workshop attended by representatives of…

The Women’s Voice and Leadership Nigeria (WVL-N) project has through its various interventions, improved the lives of over 50,000 women and girls across Lagos State

A social Impact Organisation, SuperWoman Organisation, has reiterated its commitment to empower 10,000 young women by 2030 through innovative training programmes. Through its Girl Power Africa project, launched in 2020, the organisation pairs young business women with mentors, who in turn train them for free. Founder, SuperWoman Organisation, Serena Francis, disclosed in a statement that…

To enhance the capacity of women in the political space and ensure that more women occupy leadership positions in government, the Women’s Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC), in partnership with the Canadian Government and UN Women, has organised a sensitisation workshop for legislators from across the six geo-political zones of the country.

The Coordinator, Progressive Empowerment Project for Nigerians (PEP4NW), Olajumoke Omolola, an entrepreneur and environmental consultant, presided over the inaugural meeting of the Lagos State chapter of empowerment programme held in Lagos

In an effort to catch them young, the Society of Women Accountants of Nigeria (SWAN) has charged female students in secondary schools to develop a career path in the accounting profession. It stated that developing interest in the profession at an early age would make them have an entrepreneurial potential. The National Chairperson of SWAN, Mrs. Nwamara Nnaji, gave the charge at the association’s career day programme involving 10 Girls’ Secondary…

Heir Women Hub, an organisation determined to see young women take on decision making positions and venture into leadership opportunities, has released the report of a survey it conducted to guage the knowledge and understanding of men on workplace sexual harassment against young women.