By Boma Benjy – Iwuoha
Every parent wants a smart, bright and intelligent child. This desire sees us spending so much time and resources trying to find the best schools, teachers and learning environments for our kids. We sometimes forget that as parents, we have an important role to play, and the power to enhance our children’s learning potential by making books an integral part of their lives.
It is always an amazing experience to hear motivating stories from young women who despite the odds, have reached for the sky and grabbed their destinies with both hands. The story of SoleRebels Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu, is one that will not only inspire women who desire to go into different forms of handiwork but will serve as one which all women can draw strength from in towing their various fields of endeavour.
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has recruited its first female fighter pilots, paving the way for more women to be given combat roles as one of the world’s biggest military forces takes steps towards greater gender parity.
Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenage education activist who survived a near-fatal attack by the Taliban, and her family have become millionaires in under four years due to sales of a book about her life and appearances on the global speaker circuit.
U.S. first lady Michelle Obama visited a leadership camp for girls Monday in Liberia, part of an effort to promote girls’ education in Africa.
By Ehis Ayere
When the Angolan President Dos Santos by a presidential decree appointed Isabel Dos Santos, his daughter and famous billionaire investor as the Head of Sonangol, the Angolan state oil giant, in June, a number of critics were quick to underline the president’s action as unconstitutional and an effort to cement his dynastic grip on power in the oil producing country.
Ghana’s First Lady, Mrs. Lordina Mahama, has recently charged her fellow African First Ladies to champion the rights of the adolescent girls in order to protect them against societal norms and violence.
“Until each citizen, appreciates the importance of protecting adolescent girls, ending gender norms, and violence against girls, we must continue to advocate, until our technocrats,
