Results for 129 countries measured by a new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Gender Index released by Equal Measures 2030 show that the world is far from achieving gender equality, with 1.4 billion girls and women living in countries that get a “very poor” failing grade on gender equality. The SDG Gender Index, launched at the Women Deliver 2019 Conference, is
Outgoing Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, who incurred the wrath of the APC and Adams Oshiomhole is still at war with his party. And the war seems to have taken another dimension as Okorocha has claimed that Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, once sent his DSS detail to insult him. According to Okorocha, he had gone to interact with his party
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Professor Tijjani Mohammad Bande, former Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, has achieved another feat with his appointment as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly. His appointment was announced by María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, outgoing president of UNGA at a press conference in Abuja, after her meeting with Buhari when she paid a working visit to
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The menace of kidnapping in Nigeria is not only prevalent in the northern parts of the country, but it is also happening in almost every state in Nigeria. This scary account of how a university lecturer was abducted from her home, and raped, brings home the security crisis in the country. The female lecturer in one of the tertiary institutions
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Popular Ghanaian actor, Chris Attoh has spoken for the first time after his wife, Bettie Jenifer was murdered in the USA by unknown assailants. In a brief message shared on his Twitter handle for Ghanaians and his fans in General, Chris Attoh advised them to always look up to the stars with the belief that all things shall work well.
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According to a new report by NBC News, on Sunday, police said Chris Attoh’s late wife, Bettie Jenifer was also married to 47-year-old Kedrick ‘Pretty Ricky’ Jenifer, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for importing large amounts of cocaine into Baltimore from Texas. The U.S. District Attorney’s Office said the kingpin’s “Jenifer drug trafficking organization” distributed at least 450 kilograms
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Veteran filmmaker, Eddie Ugbomah, who asked for help through his Facebook page that he needed financial support to receive urgent medical attention abroad is dead. He died yesterday night in a private hospital, where he has been receiving treatment. The 78-year-old had called the nation’s attention to his frail health in October 2018, with revelations that he was suffering from
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Information reaching WakeUpAfrica360 is that President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Godwin Emefiele as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria. Buhari has written to the Senate to seek legislative approval for another tenure for Emefiele, whose tenure was meant to expire on June 2, 2019. President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, read the letter on the floor shortly before the
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