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Women Advocates Research and Documentation Centre (WARDC) has recorded significant success since its inception in 2000. The centre has worked with different networks of women, victims of gender based violence, women with disabilities and sex workers. The group has also established the young feminist leadership in schools through the setting up ...
Certain activities in the market have strongly been criticized by a good number of people across the country, who have painfully experienced the loss of money and prized gadgets to the schemes of unqualified engineers and fraudsters, who use the chaotic market as a medium to rip off people or sell counterfeit products and services, such as mobile phones, software, accessories, etc. [14] [15 ...
According to her, 378 women will be abused by their spouses in 2020, while 286 women will be abused by their husbands in the first quarter of this year. Today, the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation held an interactive session with returnees at the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry on human trafficking, prostitution, and ...
Abiola Akiyode-Afolabi is a Nigerian lawyer and civil rights activist. [1] She is the founding Director of Women Advocates Research and Documentation Center (WARDC), a non-governmental maternal and reproductive health advocacy organization which major objective is to promote women's rights, human rights, governance and rule of law.
It is situated along Governor's Avenue in the state capital, Ikeja. The House of Assembly is currently under the All Progressives Congress political party which is the current ruling party in Lagos State. There have been nine different house of assemblies, the first one was inaugurated 2 October 1979 and the present one was inaugurated 7 June 2019.
On 21 August 2019, four operatives of the Nigerian Police Force's notorious Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) were arrested and charged with murder after being caught on film manhandling and then shooting to death two suspected phone thieves in broad daylight. [43] The two suspected phone thieves were shot dead after they had been arrested. [43]
It aimed to protect the health of both mother and child by reducing the proportion of women marrying before the age of 18 by 50% by 1995 and 80% by 2000; extending family planning services to 50% of women of childbearing age by 1995 and 80% by 2000; reducing the number of births per woman to four; and reducing the number of births to four per ...
The Society for Family Health (SFH) is a pan-African non governmental organisation (NGO), founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985. [1]The organisation was founded by three Nigerians, Professor Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, Mallam Dahiru Wali, and Hon. Justice Ifeyinwa Nzeako.