Africa Lead, in partnership with the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, has completed leadership training for selected women and youths in the country on agriculture with special focus on food security.

ASMAU, 13 and her sister, Aisha, 12 live in Wurno, a town in Sokoto State a few kilometres from the Nigeria-Niger border. They had never been to school until UNICEF’s cash transfer programme supported by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development restored opportunity for attending school. The cash transfer programme is an intervention initiative that assists parents to send mainly their daughters to school.

EVERY thought of her new beau Uche had Osariemen bubbling with excitement. Uche, a 31-year-old, hails from the southeast, Anambra State precisely; while Osariemen, 26, hails from the south-south, Edo to be precise. They were practically falling head over heels for each other. Eight months into their relationship, Osariemen succumbed to Uche’s request to meet her father.

COZY Concept, a lifestyle company with exclusive furnishings for a cozy home and office space, has berthed in Lagos. Good news is, you can shop for the coziest furniture pieces ever, right from the comfort of your home or office!

FORMER Minister of Industry and current President, Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Dr (Mrs) Nike Akande, has challenged women to be certain about their goals and pursue them with boldness, as nothing comes on a platter of gold.

SOME of the 500 widows empowered to become poultry farmers by wife of Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, have expressed optimism that the 20, 000 birds given to them would make them become millionaires.

Cross River State-born Nollywood Producer and former President, Directors Guild of Nigeria, Fidelis Duker, has been married to Temitope who is of Yoruba extraction, for about 19 years. Duker, in this interview with Woman’s Own, shares his experience amid doubts many Nigerians still hold about inter-tribal marriages. Excerpts:

OGONI—WEARY of losingtheir lands to government and multinational oil companies, Ogoni women, some of them widows, mostly driven by famine, from Eleme, Tai, Khana and Gokana Local Government Areas, Rivers State, have teamed up and formed a coalition against land grabbing and disregard of female folk in

AS recession continues to bite hard on the economy, Senator representing Cross River North in Cross River State, Dr. Rose Oko, has assured women in the area of holistic economic empowerment and support programme.

THE wife of the former Vice President, and founder of Women Trafficking and Child labour Eradication Foundation, WOTCLEF, Mrs. Titi Atiku Abubakar, has charged women in leadership positions to rise up to the task of reshaping the nation by providing intuitive ideas that would support the developmental ideals of Nigeria.