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Winnie Harlow: From Cow to Top Model
The story of top model Winnie Harlow is an inspiring as well as uplifting one.
She was born Chantelle Brown-Young on July 27, 1994 in...
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''It’s up to the people.
The people get to decide their future.
It’s no longer up to a leader, whether he’s conservative or liberal.
If people want...
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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...
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The woman who rules Malawi
Theresa Kachindamoto, the senior chief in the Dedza District of Central Malawi, wields power over close to 900,000 people… and she’s not afraid to use it to help women and Girls in her district.
In the past three years, she has annulled...
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'I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to;
Liberty or death;
If I could not have one, I would have the other'.
Harriet Tubman
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Sunday Quote: Shirin Ebadi
'Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture,
But they are also its carriers.
Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home'.
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Firm empowers internally-displaced women for micro-business
A black woman entrepreneurAs part of its 5by20 Women Economic Empowerment Initiative, Coca-Cola Nigeria has empowered over 50 internally displaced women through the provision of quality personal development and small business appreciation training.
The two-day programme tagged IDP Women Value Chain...
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Saturday Quote: Hannah Uiri
'The moment you don't give in to the lies inside your head;
Is the moment you realise who you are'.
Hannah Uiri
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If I had kids, my kids would hate me.
They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me;
Because something in my life would have had to suffer;
And it would have probably been them'.
Oprah Winfrey
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'I think education is power.
I think that being able to communicate with people is power.
One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves'.
Oprah Winfrey
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I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free...
So other people would be also free.
Rosa Parks
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Monday Quote: Ellen Degeneress
Follow your passion,
Stay true to yourself.
Never follow someone else's path;
Unless you are in the woods and you are lost and you see a path.
Then by all...
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3 lockdowns and a divorce
I don't know who needs to hear this right now but I thought long and hard about sharing this information, but lets be honest, the past...
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Our job is not to deny the story;
But to defy the ending;
To rise strong, recognize our story and rumble with the truth;
Until we get a place...
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''Everything you want to be,
You already are.
You are simply on the path to discovering it.
Alicia Keys
Monday Quote: Ellen Degeneres
'We focus so much on our differences,
And that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world.
And I...
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'I would like to be remembered as someone who accomplished useful deeds;
And who was a kind and loving person.
I would like to leave the...
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'The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there.
A lot of times we'll...
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913)
Harriet Tubman (Araminta Ross), was an American abolitionist. Born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland in 1820, Tubman was beaten and whipped by her...
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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 calling on feminists, writers, gender rights...
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Without the role of a woman in a man's life,
He is bound to fail.
And vice-versa.
Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje.
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The Silent Pandemic of Domestic Abuse
Is one of the cancers ravaging our society; yet remains one of the highly neglected and unacknowledged issues. I have always wondered why and how something so prevalent and destructive can be so ignored. Judging...
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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 region of Nigeria during the recently...
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Silent Voices of Parental Alienation
This project is needed at this time due to the increasing growth rate of parental alienation, the mental and psychological harm it causes to both child and alienated parent, the lack of awareness about it,...
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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 that takes place annually from 25...
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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 Science from the Faculty of Military Science...
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Women, Girls, and the Power of Technology
“I always say the future is female, but indeed technology is the future.”
On this International Day of the Girl Child, I urge all of us to look for ways to empower girls to access technology,...
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Patriarchy kills men too
Perhaps, the fundamental challenge women like me face is that we were raised to be perfect for partners for themselves are not perfect. However, these men do not most likely understand that they are imperfect...
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“Financial independence gives you the ability to protect yourself when life happens;
To stand on your own feet and say alright I can do something...
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...
Sunday Quote
''Instead of saying we want his or we want that;
Just do it'.
Ameera El Taweel
Tuesday Quote
'Whatever we believe about how we got to be the extraordinary creatures we are today;
Is far less important than bringing our intellect to bear;
On...
Monday Quote
'One of the hardest things in life,
Is knowing which bridges to cross,
And knowing which bridges to burn'.
Oprah Winfrey
