Call for Applications: 10000 Voices
1000 voices is a coalition of more than 1,700 women’s rights advocates in 128 countries that work to provide backup to frontline women rights activists and to secure a treaty…
Amina J Mohammed Gets Second Term As UN DSG
Nigeria’s Amina Mohammed has been reappointed as the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations for a second term. Prior to her appointment in 2017, Ms. Mohammed served as Minister of Environment…
Defining moments for gender equality in 2021
Let’s reflect and look back on 2021. Let us look at both our wins and failures that formed the major moments for gender equality and women’s rights. From women at…
Muhammadu Buhari endorses global treaty against VAWGs
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari became the first sitting president to call for a global treaty to end violence against women and girls at the UN General Assembly in September 2021.…
Call for WRITERS
In the bid to strengthen gender advocacy, women and child rights issues, press for structural, institutional, and policy changes, www.sheroes.ng is opening up its platforms for public contributions. We are…
44th Miss Nigeria. Shatu Garko
Hijab model, 18-year-old Shatu Garko, has emerged winner of the 2021 Miss Nigeria beauty pageant. Shatu, whose real name is Aisha, is an 18-year-old horse-riding lover that represented the North-West…
16 Days of Activism 2021
A violent FREE world; begins with compassion and respect. The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children Campaign (16 Days Campaign) is a United Nations campaign…
NDA Gets Female Best Graduating Cadet.
Her name is Uchechi Promise Echefu. She recently graduated cadet from the Nigeria Defence Academy Kaduna (NDA). Uchechi emerged the best graduating cadet with a First Class Honours in Computer…
Save-our-soul: sign the petition
Sexual Assault Referral Centers
Below is a list of sexual assault referral centers in Nigeria. Sexual assault includes rape, molestation, sexual harassment, pedophilia, SGBV, and other forms of child violation. 1.The Mirabel Centre Lagos…
Culture of silence an anathema to the fight against SBV
The Salama Sexual Assault Referral Centre is a sexual assualt referral centre established to serve as a place where victims of rape and gender base violence get free medical, legal…
Sheroes Rising Webinar Series II
Parental Alienation is a phenomenon that is prevalent in our societies yet invisible and unknown even by those who are guilty of it. It is one of the most toxic…
Sheroes Rising Webinar Series: Sending a Boy to do a Man’s Job.
In commemoration of the upcoming International Women's Day Celebration, Sheroes Rising Initiative for Development, the mother organisation of sheroes.ng publication is holding its first webinar series on March 8th 2021.…
Idu Train station named
In continuation of the present administration’s practice of naming some major railway stations and its facilities in the country after some deserving Nigerian citizens, the Federal Government has named the…
Nigerian’s Ngozi Okonjo Iweala makes history
Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo Iweala has emerged the first female and African to head the World Trade Organisation. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala is a Nigerian two time Minister of Finance who has…
Yobe University gets first Female Vice Chancellor
The Governing Council of Federal University, Gashua in Yobe state has approved the appointment of Professor Maimuna Waziri as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University. This was the outcome of…
Sheroes Rising partners with Kaduna Bookathon
” When children are exposed to books they start to read better. the number of books in the home is a more significant predictor of a child’s reading attainment than…
Feminists Speak About Struggling for Voices in an Age of Patriarchy
“For any society to develop and compete with global development, gender inequality must be bridged, gender-based violence must be stopped, and girl child education must be given a…
From the road side to the classroom: Aisha’s journey
On 15th August 2020 when schools were all still closed due to Covid-19 pandemic, a photo of Aisha reading a storybook on the roadside while still fraying Awara (tofu) for…
The price of seeking for knowledge
Fatima is a disabled Class Two Pupil of Dan Shayi Primary School in Rimin Gado Local Government Area of Kano state. Even the scorching sun will descend upon her mercilessly,…
Kano Women demands Mental Health Centres Not Psychiatric Hospitals
Dr Amina Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has called for the establishment of mental health centres instead of psychiatric hospitals in Kano state. This she said will go a long way in…
