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- 24 Jun 2025
MTN Nigeria Receives UN Women Award for Empowering Women Nationwide
MTN Foundation has received accolades from UN Women, the United Nations entity dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women. L - R: Chukwuemeka Onyimadu (PhD), National Economist, UN…
- 16 Dec 2018
P&G, UN Women, Partner to Empower Women on Financial Literacy
In furtherance of its commitment to empower women and promote gender equality, Procter and Gamble, leading Consumer Goods Company in Nigeria has collaborated with the United Nations, Entity for…
- 8 Mar 2016
MasterCard, UN Women Join to Advance Empowerment of Women
Around the world, nearly 2.4 billion people live without any form of official personal identification, and the majority of them are women. As part of broader International Women’s Day activities,…
- 15 Jul 2014
ITU, UN Women to Recognize Work in Tech for Gender Equality
ITU and UN Women are partnering to launch a new global technology award that recognizes outstanding contributions from women and men in leveraging the potential of information and communication…
- 22 Sept 2023
NGX, UN Women Partner to Promote Gender Bonds in Nigeria
Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX) and United Nations Women (UN Women) will partner on the integration of gender bonds and other gender-themed sustainable financing mechanisms as strategic instruments…
- 13 Dec 2016
UN Empower Women Names Okolo, Lift Saxum Founder Global Champion
Barrister Nwanneka Okolo, founder of the foremost capacity building and skills development NGO in the South East, Lift Saxum, has been nominated a UN Women Empower Women 2016-2017 Champion for…
- 13 Dec 2021
X3M Ideas Announced as Founding Member of UN Women's Newly Launched Unstereotype Alliance Nigerian Chapter
X3M Ideas, leading African advertising agency, proudly announces that it joins the core membership of the UN Women’s Nigerian Chapter of Unstereotype Alliance - a global coalition committed to ending…
- 19 May 2016
ITU Opens Nominations for UN Women GEM-TECH Awards
The third annual Gender Equality and Mainstreaming in Technology (GEM-TECH) Awards by UN Women and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), opened yesterday for nominations. This prestigious…
- 4 Oct 2013
UN Report Says Women are Most Promising Market for ICT
A new report released by the Broadband Commission Working Group on Broadband and Gender of the United Nations has revealed that a significant and pervasive tech gap in access to information and…
- 26 Sept 2015
New UN Report says 3Q of Women & Girls Exposed to Cyber Violence
A new report released by the United Nations Broadband Commission reveals that almost three quarters of women online have been exposed to some form of cyber violence, and urges governments and…
- 13 Aug 2014
Nigerian Entrepreneurship Initiative Named Finalist in Project Inspire 2014
The Singapore Committee for UN Women and MasterCard have announced that Corehead Business Solutions, a Nigerian enterprise that trains women in the country on entrepreneurship and business expansion…
- 20 Aug 2020
Stanbic IBTC Partners United Nations on Women Empowerment
Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc has disclosed that it recently partnered the United Nations on an initiative to provide seed funding for women across the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria and the Federal…
- 19 Mar 2018
Some $408m Fund for Internet Access Sitting Idle
New research indicates more than $4008million in public funding collected to expand internet access in Africa is sitting dormant in public coffers. The research from the Web Foundation,…
- 2 Jun 2023
MTN Joins United Nations Women Empowerment Principles, Advocates for Gender Equality in Workplace
MTN Nigeria, leading ICT firm, has signed the United Nations Women Empowerment Principles (UN WEPs) as part of its commitment to gender equality in the workplace through the Nigeria2Equal programme…
- 26 Sept 2019
Nigerian Firm Selected for the 5th Annual UN Solutions Summit in New York
Technology for Development (Tech4Dev), a non-profit social enterprise, with its solution ‘Women Techsters’ has been selected for the 5th UN Solutions Summit in New York. The UN Solution Summit…
- 12 Mar 2021
Coca-cola Empowers Over 2 Million Women Entrepreneurs Across Africa through 5by20 Initiative
The Coca-Cola Company and its partners are proud to celebrate exceeding our 5by20 goal by enabling the economic empowerment of more than 6 million women around the world. 34% (just over 2 million) of…
- 9 May 2022
ITU Appoints Pantami to Chair World Summit on WSIS Forum 2022
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has appointed Professor Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, minister of Communications and Digital Economy, as chairman of the World Summit on Information Society…
- 25 Nov 2022
Steve Babaeko Joins Global Business Leaders at the UN Stereotype Alliance Global Member Summit
Steve Babaeko, Founder and CEO of X3M Ideas, earlier this week, joined global business leaders at this year’s UN Stereotype Alliance Global Member Summit at the UN Headquarters in New York. The…
- 29 Mar 2016
Intel’s ‘She Will Connect’ Ambassador Speaks on New Learning App
Titilope Sonuga Intel’s Ambassador for ‘She Will Connect’, has been scheduled to shed light Intel's new online learning platform, My Digital Journey. My Digital Journey an interactive platform and…
- 16 Nov 2018
IBM Earmarks N9bn for Youth Empowerment in Nigeria, Others
The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is to spend 25 million dollars (about N9 billion) in Nigeria and some other African countries for youth empowerment in the next few years. Ms…
- 9 Mar 2021
NSE Urges Private Sector to Challenge Gender Inequality
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) joined the rest of the world on Monday, 8 March 2021 to commemorate International Women’s Day (IWD) and the 7th Ring the Bell for Gender Equality. With the theme…
- 28 Oct 2014
Ministry of CommTech Bags GEM-TECH Awards
Seven outstanding individuals and organizations, including Nigeria’s Ministry of Communication Tecnology, leading pioneering projects and advocacy linked to harnessing the power of information and…
- 25 May 2015
WSIS Forum Welcomes Largest-ever Gathering of ‘ICT for development’ Community
Ten years after the UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), participants from government, civil society, the private sector and international organizations are meeting in Geneva to…
- 9 Mar 2016
New AfDB Partnership to Stem Gender-Based Cyber Violence
African Development Bank (AfDB) has launched a partnership with Facebook, the Kenya ICT Authority, Judiciary and the Kenya Police to increase awareness on cyber-based gender violence. The event,…
- 9 Mar 2020
International Women’s Day: Google to train 20,000 women across Africa
Google on Monday announced its commitment to empower 20,000 women in Africa with Entrepreneurship, Workplace Readiness, Leadership and Technology Skills, before the end of the year. According to the…
- 28 Oct 2025
The Alternative Bank, Utiva Partner on Scholarships to Boost Digital Skills for Women
The Alternative Bank (‘AltBank’) has announced the launch of The Alternative Bank-Utiva Women in Tech Scholarship, a landmark initiative designed to empower women entrepreneurs with digital skills,…
- 17 Feb 2016
Facebook Kicks Off Global Effort on Women’s Safety
Facebook hosted a Women’s Safety roundtable in Kenya on February 10 with participants from NGOs, academia, women’s rights groups, and safety organisations from Kenya and across Sub-Saharan Africa to…
- 14 Mar 2024
IWD: AGRA Opens Applications for 2024 Edition of the WAYA Awards, Dangles $300,000 Grants for Winners
In a recent event held to commemorate the International Women’s Day celebrations at the Chida Events Center in Abuja Nigeria, AGRA officially launched the call for applications for the 2024 Women…
- 6 Mar 2022
UK Holds Training Workshops for 33 Sexual Assault Referral Centres in Nigeria
UK government offices based in Nigeria has organised four days of training workshops for all 33 Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) and their main stakeholders in Nigeria. These workshops were…
- 24 Oct 2017
Importance of Financing Women-Owned MSMEs in Global Supply Chain
By Omokehinde Adebanjo There is significant evidence that women are the glue that hold their families, communities and even local economies together all over the world. What I find enlightening is…