LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As COVID-19 continues to ravage the developed world, the effects are farther reaching in areas of Africa. Amina Abdulla, Concern Worldwide’s Country Director in Kenya, has raised the alarm that women are currently feeling extensive personal devastation in the wake of COVID-19. According to her, “Due to greater economic stress and social isolation…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Founding Co-Chair of the Every Woman Treaty Steering Committee, Dr. Eleanor Nwadinobi was received by President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria at the Aso Villa for International Women’s Day 2020. Dr. Nwadinobi is the first Nigerian to serve as President of the Medical Women’s International Association. She recently served as a coauthor of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta has signed into law a controversial bill that legalizes polygamy. But after this was done in Kenya, something dramatic happened next. The women association in Kenya took to the streets to celebrate President Kenyatta legalizing polygamy much to the surprise of many. Remember that the Kenyan women…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Intense gunfire between two rival jihadist groups in northeast Nigeria has left several fighters dead, two sources with close knowledge of the incident told AFP on Monday. Fighters in pickup trucks from a Boko Haram faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau stormed a camp belonging to rival IS-aligned Islamic State West Africa Province…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Jigawa state government says 440 women in Birniwa local government area of the state will be empowered with 1,320 goats under the state goats loan microcredit programme. NAN reports that Ahmed Zubairu, chairman of the goats distribution committee, was speaking in Birniwa on Friday after screening the women for the second…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ghanaian man residing in New Jersey, Rubbin Sarpong, is behind bars after United States authorities say he scammed 30 women of over $2.1m by posing as a “sweet message sending” soldier online. Rubbin Sarpong, a 35-year-old Ghanaian citizen with US residency, was recently arrested for swindling women on sites like Plenty…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Nigeria Association of Social Workers on Tuesday staged a sensitization march on the streets of Yenagoa, Bayelsa state capital to educate the masses on how to end violence against women and children in the state. Members of the group, who moved from Yenagoa-Mbiama road to the government house gate and…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-It is not unheard of for men to have more than one wife with many cultural practices and religions of the world even supporting the habit. However, it comes across as unusual to hear of a woman with multiple husbands. Polyandry is a form of polygamy in which a woman takes two…
