Submitted by @anibrendan Why nobody has explored the idea of a female supreme being… I can’t say for sure. Besides the fact that different religions describe supreme beings with definite masculinity I think we’re all just plain scared of the concept. Maybe scared is pushing it a little too far. Maybe we’ve never imagined the concept […]
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The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF-SGP), an international program of the United Nation’s Development Programme (UNDP) recently inaugurated new members for its Nigeria’s National Steering Committee. It also utilised the occasion to appreciate its old and outgoing committee members and outlined its plans we well enumerates its achievements. The meeting also
According to Unicef,” Over one million people die from malaria each year, mostly children under five years of age, with 90 per cent of malaria cases occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa. An estimated 300-600 million people suffer from malaria each year. More than 40 percent of the world’s population lives in malaria-risk areas” Amisa, a refugee living in the Nyarugusu
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In a country where literacy rate is just 33.4% according to UNICEF , a lady has put it on herself to be of tremendeous benefit to people, especially women, in her country. Her name is Mariam Diallo Drame. With about ten years of experience as a leader in promoting youth leadership and gender equality, Mrs Drame
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The earth’s climate is changing and not in a good way, for most people. The years 2014 and 2015 witnessed some of the hottest years on record. The change in climate has severe implications for the economy of the world and the lives of earth’s inhabitants. The effects of climate change cut across continents and
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If everyday we have to determine the heroes in our midst based on wealth and political affluence, we would be lost in ignorance due to the fact that there are people out there giving us the opportunity to experience real freedom to determine who our heroes are. These individuals, like Bukky Shonibare, are the real
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My company, Advanced Simplicity has been trying to address the remediation and restoration of the Niger Delta for a number of years now. I visited Nigeria in 2012 to present to NOSDRA whilst also meeting with a number of people regarding the issues. At the time there was something that struck me that is still
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Everyone’s experience here, on earth, is valid. Desires, dreams, aspirations. I daresay. Desires, dreams, aspirations. I daresay marriage is commonly unfair to women. Especially in our part of the world. For more often than not, women suspend their goals to help their husbands achieve his in the belief that when he attains his, he will
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The International Sustainability Conference was held on the at the Lagos Business School. The theme of the conference was … with SDG 1, 7 and in focus, there were three panel sessions with high-level participants as well as a keynote address by Mr Mutiu Sunmonu, Chairman, Julius Berger Nigeria and a plenary session by Prof. Kenneth Amaeshi.
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Today is November 17th, 2016; 1 month and 8 days to Christmas. The sun is still shinning like it did in February when I interviewed Nigeria’s Minister for Environment, Amina J. Mohammed—whom my twin sister and I fondly call Mama—to complain about the heat and discuss what we can do about it. I may have
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