A Nigerian organisation that focuses on women health and information has said addressing the issue of child marriage can enhance girls’ access to healthcare services, education and also reduce infant mortality. To achieve this, the group said it had initiated an advocacy that would promote the prohibition of child marriage in some communities in Agege ...

The Lagos State Government reiterated their unwavering commitment to continually implement initiatives targeted at empowering women and youths to become useful and responsible citizens. The State’s Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Cecelia Dada said the present administration would spare no effort to equip women and young persons with the requisite skills aimed at ...

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested popular musician, Augustine Kelechi, aka Tekno, for breaching public decency by conveying half naked girls in traffic. Tekno who had sometime last week conveyed half-clad girls, who were dancing seductively, in a transparent glass box in a truck around the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge, is undergoing questioning at the ...

The President of The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA), Zainab Atoba has called on Kaduna State government to change the punishment for rape and defilement from 14 years to death penalty by hanging. Atoba, during a courtesy visit to Alhaji Aminu Shagali, the Speaker Kaduna State House of Assembly said this had become imperative ...

The first lady of Lagos state, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu has assured residents of the State of the unwavering commitment of the present administration to invest massively in provision of quality healthcare services to the people, saying that no effort would be spared to improve on the situation in the sector. Dr Sanwo-Olu, who is a ...

In fulfillment of his election promise to accelerate his administration’s development agenda, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, transmitted a list of Commissioner-designates to the House of Assembly for ratification. The list contained twenty five names, out which are 8 women constituting 32% female representation, who are to assume duty as Commissioners and Special Advisers, making ...