The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has pushed for the establishment of special banks designed to cater for the women in Nigeria. Read more »
American philanthropist Melinda Gates says deaths from complications related to pregnancy and giving birth kill more than 350,000 women and three million babies, mostly in ... Read more »
Delegates attending recent summits on family planning and African women's empowerment have urged donors and African leaders to invest in women's health and economic participation ... Read more »
The final draw for the eighth African Women's Championships has been announced which will see defending champs, Nigeria, face stiff competition. Read more »
The head of National Health Immunisation Department, Alda Morais, promotes participation of women in fertile age to join neo-natal tetanus vaccination campaign. Read more »
A collection of documents containing comprehensive data and analysis on family planning and maternal health reveal the importance of investing in the lives of women and children. Read more »
The Senate has confirmed the appointment of the first female Chief Justice, Justice Aloma Mukhtar, who faces a tough task of "stitching together" a battered judiciary. Read more »
Senator Morgan Famai's comments about women having to make themselves appear less attractive to curb the spread of HIV were supposed to be taken as a joke, Kwekwe MP Blessing ... Read more »
A maternal obstetric unit in Cape Town has not recorded a single maternal death from April 2011 to May this year with the help of a Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission ... Read more »
President Goodluck Jonathan formally nominated the most senior justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Alooma Mariam Mukhtar, as first female chief justice of Nigeria (CJN) and ... Read more »
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