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10 Dec
Stakeholders in Nigeria are seeking leeway to raise the fund required to bring an end to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) through budgetary allocation and the private sector. The United Nations said countries like Nigeria and 132 others would require $42b to end the violence. Of this sum, $32.5b is needed in new investments in the next…
26 Oct 2023
A coalition of feminist organisations in Africa has urged the Federal Government to legislate for protection and preservation of rights of women, especially the most vulnerable, in the country.
26 Oct 2023
Coalition of feminist organizations in Africa has urged the Nigerian government to put in place legislations that would guarantee the protection and preservation of the rights of women, especially the vulnerables in the country.
18 Jul 2023
As Nigerians await the list of federal ministers, women groups have called on President Bola Tinubu to deliver on his campaign pledge of having, at least, 35 per cent women in his cabinet.
12 Jul 2023
Federal Government’s recent rechristening of the National Women Development Centre (NWDC) as Maryam Babangida Centre has reawakened the old question of the usefulness of ‘First Ladies’ pet projects vis-à-vis their sustainability.
13 May 2023
With women winning only 75 legislative seats out of the 1,459 seats up for grabs at the state and national levels in the 2023 general election, a coalition of women groups has decried the violence that induced the low turnout of voters recorded in the polls.
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