Early marriage and pregnancy are challenges faced by many teenage girls in Ethiopia. Unicef’s Girls’ Empowerment photo project aims to document the hopes, dreams and aspirations of young women throughout Ethiopia All photographs by Kate Holt for Unicef A young woman with her baby in the maternity unit of the hospital in Gambella, Ethiopia. Early …

Women are the real architects of society. CRACO Celebrates with all women around the world especially in Nigeria. We love you all. ABOUT INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth …

A former British prime minister and United Nations special envoy for Global Education, Mr Gordon Brown, has issued a fresh plea to the kidnappers of 220 Chibok schoolgirls to release them immediately. He urged the Boko Haram militants to free the girls who were taken from the town of Chibok last April. Mr Brown was speaking after the same terrorist …

A CNN video report says that the Chibok girls, abducted by the Boko Haram sect in April 14, 2014, are still alive. This story was recounted by Monica Sunday, a 20-year old Christian woman who said that she was held by the sect for 3 days last November. She said, while speaking with Channel 4 that the girls were not harmed, but were cooking for the insurgent. …

Pope Francis on Saturday condemned female mutilation and domestic violence against women, calling them degradations that had to be combated. “The many forms of slavery, the commercialization, and mutilation of the bodies of women, call out to us to be committed to defeat these types of degradation that reduce them to mere objects that are bought …

A 15-year-old girl, Paulina Ojeka, has been declared missing by her guardian, Pastor Biodun Akinlade, who lives on Abioye Street, Ogba, Lagos State. The teenager reportedly fled home on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, after she came back from her place of work where she was an apprentice to a tailor. It was learnt that the girl’s action might not be …

BY Moses Oyediran An Enugu-Ezike based herbalist in Aji community of Igboeze North LGA of Enugu state, Chief Simon Odo, popularly referred to as ‘Onu Uwa’ says he desires to have a village of his own, for a good reason: The 68 years old herbal practitioner is married to all of 56 women and over 300 children, and he told Daily Times, “I can only …