iWatch – report for progress!
The January 2012 fuel protests unleashed and expanded a wave of citizens monitoring Government activity. As an outcome of the occupy Nigeria Movement The Co-Creation Hub has launched a website www.iwatchlive.org where Nigerians can monitor and report on government programmes and projects at national, state and local government levels. They are the creators of the excellent [...]
Today, March 8th is the International Day for Women as observed by the UN. What does this mean to you especially when you’re a woman the other days of the year? The UN observances set aside a time to commemorate, promote and take action on the focus of the day, week or year. This year the [...]
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Media professional Fumi Iyanda is taking a stand against the removal of fuel subsidies in Nigeria and filming the anti fuel subsidy removal movement as it unfolds. On her documentation site ChopCassava.com she explains why in the article below I marched first and foremost as a citizen but by evening the image of my very angry self had circulated on major news networks and [...]
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Domestic violence and entertainent. Those two dont go together or do they? How about entertainment and influence? I want to talk about all four. As the 15 days for activism on violence against women and children continues I choose to look at Nigerian female musicians who have put the issue of VAW in thier artforms. [...]
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Recently news of a gang rape captured on video which had been circulating for about a month in Abia State University(ABSU) emerged online resulting in a drama filled chain reaction. The story quickly garnered swift condemnation, disbelief, jokes from some and a response from the Minister for Youth and the House of Representatives member [...]
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Akin of www.akinblog.nl writes on the latest reported utterances from the Abia State Police on the ABSU rape in the Vangaurd newspaper. They walked On the 5th of October 2011, walks to protest the #ABSURape were organised to take place in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State, Abuja and Lagos, the walks were seriously militated [...]
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Campus politics is dangerous for girls by Chinelo Akorah Female student politician shares her controversial views on girls in campus politics. Georginia Njoku is a final year student of Sociology in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa. She is former Vice President of the “University School Hostel”, a place with profound influence, particularly when it comes to school politics [...]
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If you had picked up the paper-print of This Day Newspaper especially on July 17th, 2011 with the cartoon characters of the recently appointed 13 female ministers in President Jonathan’s cabinet spreading across with Goodluck Jonathan in the middle with the caption ‘President Jonathan’s 13 Women: Can They Deliver?‘ , you can feel your mind [...]
Continue reading …MS. Ebiti Ndok Jegede; 2011 female presidential aspirant interview with free2run…by Toyin Ajao
July 13, 2011 No Comment
Ms. Ebiti Ndok Jegede, a fearless, bold and determined Nigerian woman, who believes in equal representations of women in all spheres of life, was a 2011 presidential aspirant in the April elections in Nigeria. The vigorous and intelligent woman whose concern for the change necessary and needed in Nigeria motivated her to take a stand [...]
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image courtesy Bella Naija I remember vividly my first encounter with her. It was on a Wednesday morning, 11am, on the Nigeria Television Authority network service and she was presenting a dossier of her favorite TV ‘tonic’, NEW DAWN. I had wondered why she chose such a pregnant name for her programme, but she was [...]
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