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A review of the events of the year 2020 in Nigeria, cannot be complete without remarkable happenings around the women. The Tide’s Women Desk takes a look at scenarios of events involving Nigerian women within the year under review. Prof (Mrs) Blessing Esuru Ahiauzu was recently on the news for a good reason.This time, she has broken a record as the only person and woman to become a Professor of Library and Information Management in Rivers and Bayelsa States. Prof (Mrs) Blessing Esuru Ahiauzu, who incidentally is the wife of the former Vice Chancellor of the then Rivers State University of S...

A t the end of 2019 the women’s movement was holding its breath in expectation at what was heralded to be the year when women's rights would take center stage on the international arena. The year 2020 marked 25 years from the Beijing Platform of Action—the most progressive international blueprint for advancing women’s rights—the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nation’s Security Council Resolution 1325, which set a new framework for women’s leadership and inclusion in all aspects of peace and 100 years since white women got the right to vote in the United States. And...

Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 For the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, and as part of UN Women's Generation Equality campaign, UN Women Europe and Central Asia asked 25 women to probe still hidden issues and share inspiring ideas on getting transformation going, for good. Roza Mojsovska, 54, is an artist and poetess from North Macedonia who creates artwork with a brush in her mouth. Credit: UN Women/ Karina Ekizler-Kirillova Roza started painting when she was 7 years old. It was International Women’s Day, and she had just had surgery on ...

By Ahmed Ubandoma Abuja, Dec. 4, 2020 First Lady Aisha Buhari has called for strategic partnership to end the raising cases of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) against women and girls in Nigeria. She made the call on Friday at a Seminar to mark the 2020 United Nations UN Women’s campaign for 16 days of activism against GBV in Abuja. Naija247news reports that the event was organised by the Secretariat of the African First Lady’s Peace Mission in collaboration with the office of Nigeria’s first lady. The theme of the Seminar is ” The first lady as leader and mobiliser of women and youths f...

We should work towards violence-free election Thursday December 17 2020 Advertisement Last week, Uganda joined the rest of the world to renew its commitment to end violence against women by the year 2030. 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign to confront violence against women and girls. The campaign runs every year from November 25 the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to December 10, the International Human Rights Day. This year’s global theme was: ‘Orange the World: Fund, Respond, Prevent, Collect!’ The thematic ...