Two people were hurt in a town in southern France on Sunday when a veiled woman shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) attacked them in a supermarket with a boxcutter knife, prosecutors said. A customer was struck in the chest during the late-morning assault in La Seyne-sur-Mer, outside the Mediterranean port of Toulon, but the…

RwandAir has teamed up with Question Coffee to commence a ground-breaking partnership to serve Rwandan specialty coffee on all of RwandAir flights with over 2 million cups to be offered in the next two years. This partnership allows passengers the opportunity to support smallholder women farmers and their families in Rwanda. The airline is proud…

Joan Onyemaechi Mrakpor represents the people of Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, after serving two terms in Delta State House Of Assembly. In a recent interview with ODITA SUNDAY, she does not think politics should be made a gender issue. In your view, why are more women not coming out to participate…

lbativeni Foundation, with support from the Embassy of Ecuador, has offered a free six-month training on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to 20 ladies. In an interview with The Guardian, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Elbativeni Foundation, Destiny Ruth Obiakoeze, said the programme tagged: ‘Project Loop Her’, was designed to empower women by getting them acquainted…

Ifeoma Fafunwa is a consummate thespian with a difference, who see theatre as a platform for radical advocacy that should change the fortunes of women. While other feminist theorists blame men for the institution of patriarchy and its evils against women, Fafunwa thinks otherwise. In fact, she believes women are both victims and perpetrators of…

The maiden life transforming SheCan two-day conference tagged She Can Do More, held recently at the Muson Centre and the National Stadium, welcoming hundreds of women and young girls. It started with a conference on the first day and finished with a walk at the National Stadium the following day. The conference, which had hundreds…

Ahead of the 2019 presidential election, women and youths have been urged to rise in support of the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as the only politician capable of stopping the country from drifting. Speaking during the official launch and inauguration of Rebuild Nigeria Initiative Forum (RNI), one of the support groups for Atiku,…

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) has stated that empowering women under the ‘SheTrades Initiative’ is an opportunity to accelerate the nation’s economic growth and unlock the potential of the captive ability of women who dominate the nation’s non-oil export sectors. According to the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of NEPC, Olusegun Awolowo, increasing participation of…

As Nigeria’s make-up beauty industry continues to expand, entrepreneurs have been tasked on the need to explore opportunities in the sector by leveraging networks of local suppliers. Indeed, at a two-day exhibition fair for women entrepreneurs powered by Diamond Bank Plc, stakeholders noted that the fair seeks to empower women, while reaching out to a…

Antibiotics increase women’s risk of an early death from heart disease by inflicting irreparable damage on their gut lining, new research warns. Those who are prescribed a dose that spans two months or more are 58 percent more likely to succumb to terminal heart issues, the study found. In fact, their risk of premature death…

The legion of civil society organisations committed to the welfare and interests of women and children may have been scandalised by the events leading to and conducing to the repeat performance of an identical scene in the Chibok School macabre drama. About 1,500 days after the gruesome abduction of school girls from their institution of…

"Why you dey behave like woman? Abeg, man up!"                                 **** "Don't you know you're a woman?"   At some point in your life, you might have heard statements similar to these. If you've really stopped to think about it, then perhaps you, like the rest of us, have wondered why. Why can't men cry or…