President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday said Nigerian women occupy strategic positions in the current administration.
The Nigerian Leader made the assertion when he received the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Mrs Winnie Byanyima at State House, Abuja.
According to Buhari, “Women hold strategic positions in this administration. The Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning is headed by a woman.
President Buhari said the Civil Service of the Federation is headed by another woman, adding that the administration would continue to empower them across the country.
On infrastructure renewal, he noted that the country lost good opportunities, ‘but we can’t continue to cry over spilt milk. We are now doing our best in concert with some developed countries.”
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The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Winnie Byanyima, has advocated an end to HIV/AIDS in Nigeria.
According to a statement, Byanyima would pay an official visit to Nigeria between March eight and 10, as part of her efforts to ensure the country wins the battle against HIV/AIDS.
The statement partly reads, “The Executive Director and United Nations Under-Secretary-General, Winnie Byanyima, will be in Nigeria on an official visit from March 8 to 10, her first to the country since taking up her post in November 2019. During her visit, Ms Byanyima, will hold high-level talks on the country’s response to the colliding epidemics of HIV and COVID-19.
Joint statement of United Nations entities on the right to healthy environment
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The right to a healthy environment is recognized by over 150 UN member states, but it has not been formally recognized at the global level thereby delaying achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals, exacerbating inequalities, and creating protection gaps, especially for environmental human rights defenders, children, youth, women, and indigenous peoples who often have been and continue to be agents of change for safeguarding the environment.
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The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has called for the support of prominent Nigerians to encourage womenfolk in political participation in the country.
Talllen made the call on Monday in Abuja during an interactive session, between the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Executive Director, Ms Winnie Byanyima and women leaders in Nigeria.
She said that women would continue to fight for their rights until things changed for better through their political and elective offices.
“I salute all the women leaders present here for their doggedness and resilience, we will not rest on our oars, we will continue to fight for our right till we achieve our desires,” she stressed.
These relationships are carried on without proper consideration [Photo: Shutterstock]
This practice is rooted in other Sub-Saharan cultures as well. In South Africa, for instance, ‘blessers’, a connotation for sugar daddies is nothing short of an epidemic so much that it caught the attention of the country’s then-president, Jacob Zuma, who spoke out against them. Zuma’s concern springs from research findings that prove that the ‘blessers’ are an influential factor driving the transmission of HIV in South Africa. In Kenya, this is no different.
In many cases, these relationships are carried on without proper consideration of the consequences. According to AVERT, an NGO dedicated to providing research information about HIV/Aids, the sugar-daddy trend predisposes young women to a substantially higher risk of contracting HIV. According to the National Aids Control Council (NACC), HIV prevalence for women in Kenya stands at seven per cent, as opposed to 4.7 percent for men