gender
12 Mar
Wife of Abia State Governor, Nkechi Ikpeazu, has said the government is working out a gender policy to fight gender discrimination and others in the state.
19 Feb
A lawyer and founder of Project One, Bisayo Busari-Akinnadeju has played an impactful role in prison decongestion by providing legal aid to indigent persons who couldn’t afford
10 Feb
Country Manager, WorldRemit Nigeria, Gbenga Okejimi, has declared that access to quality education is imperative to equip people with requisite skills and knowledge required
6 Dec
Wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu on Monday in Lagos described the death of Sylvester Oromomi (Jnr), the 12-year-old student of Dowen College,
2 Dec
United Nations (UN) Women through the Joint EU-UN Spotlight Initiative in collaboration with leading women from the creative arts industry recently launched the Nigerian chapter
31 Oct 2021
Opposites attract and thus this concept hangs about every scope of life as we know; man, woman birthing the social norm of society, pink as opposed to blue for boys, male shirts with the buttons run on the right side different from the accustomed left side for women's shirts. All these rubrics have fashioned the…
20 May 2021
Lego is launching a rainbow-themed LGBTQ+ set called 'Everyone Is Awesome' with no gender assigned to all but one of the figures. Pale blue, white, and pink represent the transgender community, while black and brown stand for the different skin colours across the LGBTQ+ community, according to The Guardian. The purple figure is the only…
1 May 2021
Civil Society Organisations have been charged to demand accountability from the government for budget allocation at all levels to cater for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
13 Mar 2021
Sam Smith has spoken out amid reports that the Brit Awards will continue to use gendered categories at this year’s ceremony. It was previously thought that organisers would be scrapping their Best Male and Best Female categories from 2021 onwards, in a bid to make the show more inclusive. However, in a report by HuffPost,…
9 Nov 2020
The Oxford English Dictionary has updated its definition of the word “woman” following complaints that it was “sexist”. In the latest edition of the dictionary, the publisher altered dozens of terms including "woman", "man", "housework" and "high-maintenance". The changes come after a petition was set up last year by campaigner Maria Beatrice Giovanardi to get…
4 Oct 2020
Luxury fashion brand Gucci has unveiled a £1,700 (₦650,250) orange check dress which features a satin bow on the front for men a bid to fight the toxic masculine stereotypes. According to Gucci, the Tartan cotton long smock shirt, which is inspired by grunge looks from the ‘90s, reflects the idea of fluidity explored for…
20 Jun 2020
The Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has received kudos from the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for his fight against rape and other gender-based violence
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