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An official says the present administration’s efforts at diversifying the economy is yielding the desired results.

Over the years, several economic empowerment schemes have been set up at the national level to help empower Nigerian women. Daily Trust on Sunday reports on the progress and challenges of the schemes over time. According to data compiled by the development and Research Project Centre (dRPC) and Partnership for Advancing Women Economic Development-PAWED project, […]

Against practice standards, Nigerian health workers, especially in public health institutions, ascertain the marital status of women to ...

Subsea 7 has announced the award of a large contract to Subsea Integration Alliance by Woodside, as Operator for and on behalf of the Scarborough Joint Venture, for the Scarborough project, located approx. 380km offshore North West Australia.

Nigerian children face the grievous challenges of insecurity, poverty, and lack of access, an official says.

The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen has disclosed that the federal government is committed to advancing gender equality, women's economic development, and child protection issues as a crucial component of the change agenda of the current administration. She said this in Lagos during a 4-day stakeholder retreat organized by…

The health advocates noted that the budget seems not to have any specific information or plan to address family planning and the threat ...

The honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen has identified women economic empowerment as a solution to the myriads of

FG kicks against early marriage for girl child The Punch Published 21 July 2021 The Federal Government has called on Nigerians to protect the girl child and end child marriages and other forms of Gender-Based Violence in the country. The government also pushed for the domestication of the Child Rights Act in the 36 states of the federation to pave the way to end child marriage. The Minister of Women Affairs, Pauline Tallen, stated these in Abuja during a one-day meeting between ...

It warned of the impending poverty implications of this growing population, saying, “This is a frightening eventuality, more so in the context of increasing physical, cyber and fiscal insecurity.” The non-governmental agency noted the effort of government and politicians at national and state levels to address the looming poverty future for Nigeria’s population, including the commitment to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty. PACFah said, “That government has taken an economic res...