The struggle of my life created empathy – I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
Oprah Winfrey
Monday Quote
Profiles
Sunday Quote: Shirley Chisolm
I want to be remembered;
As the woman who dared to be a catalyst of change'.
Shirley Chisolm
Brenda Fassie (November 3rd 1964-May 9th 2004)
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Fassie was born in Langa, Cape Town, as the youngest of nine children. She was named after the American singer Brenda Lee. She was...
Oyo women will not compromise political rights – Women leader
Chief Adeyinka Adegbite, a women rights and political activist in Ibadan, says women in Oyo State will no longer compromise their political rights in...
Opinion
#istandwithher: orange the world
Today, I stand with her, she who was regarded as a person of no consequences nor importance, on the basis of sex. Today, I stand...
Friday Quote: Betty Friedan
A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex,
But neither should she "adjust" to prejudice and discrimination.
Betty Friedan
News
This is Northern Nigeria
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This is Northern Nigeria; where:
Everybody be hypocrite
Everybody dey double speak
This is Northern Nigeria.
This Bazawara she must marry and remarry but not my son Auzubillah
This...
Wednesday Quote: Michelle Bachelet
Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource.
The challenge then for UN Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this...
Wednesday Quote
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''Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both''.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Women
Bilkisu Yusuf (December 2, 1952 – September 24, 2015)
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A versatile journalist, columnist, journalism ombudsman and later civil society activist, Hajiya Bilkisu mentored a lot of journalists for about three decades.
Bilkisu was born...
Tuesday Quote
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"If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we...
Sheroes Quote: Karen Quinones-Axalan
'It takes bravery to show up and be vulnerable, which means not being able to control what the outcome will be.
It is not the...
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