LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Google plans to train 20,000 Nigerian women and youth in digital skills and provide a grant of 1.2 billion naira ($1.6 million) to help the government’s create one million digital jobs in the country, its Africa executives said on Tuesday. Nigeria plans to create digital jobs for its teeming youth population, Vice…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu CON has expressed her readiness to partner with the United Nations and its sister agencies to address various areas of concern including role of women in public life, increased participation in economy, ending gender based violence, child labor and the…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The traditional ruler of the Ikate-Elegushi Kingdom, Saheed Ademola (Kusenla III), has declared a three-day Oro rite on non-indigenes and women from midnight to 5:30 a.m., including on Saturday’s governorship and state assembly election day. In a memo issued to the residents of Ikate-Elegushi, the monarch announced that there would be a…
LAGOS JANAURY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidate of Labour Party, Peter Obi has said it is the turn of Nigeria youths and women to take back Nigeria. He made the assertion during a recent visit to Akwa-Ibom (his wife country) for his campaign. Peter Obi while revealing his plans for Nigeria if elected president of Nigeria next…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wife of presidential frontrunner and candidate of Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Margaret Peter Obi, has said that Nigerian women must reject past governments which refused to give the women opportunity in their administration. Mrs Obi also assured Nigerians of holistic health insurance cover for the poorest in the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidates have responded, in part, to the coalition of women groups, which demanded on Monday, that contestants running for next year’s election should lay out their plans for women and girls across the country. Speaking, yesterday, at the Voice of Women (VOW) 2022 conference and awards, held in Abuja, the presidential…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Wednesday invaded the National Youth Service Scheme Corpers’ lodge located along Udo Ekong Ekwere street, off Information Drive in Uyo Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State and raped women occupants. It was gathered that the gunmen who stormed the area by 1 am that on tricycles carted away valuables…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Senate on Tuesday voted to reject changes to the constitution to allow citizens living abroad to vote in national elections, while a provision to allocate special seats for women to increase their political representation failed to pass. Voters in Africa’s most populous nation will go to the polls to elect a…
