Tag: Dame Pauline Tallen

DSS launches Gender Mainstreaming Policy in Abuja

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The Department of State Services (DSS)has unveiled its gender mainstreaming policy outlining a homegrown comprehensive framework for the integration of gender perspectives and inclusiveness in the agency’s policies, programmes and procedures.   This is a key component of the Service’s commitment to promoting gender equality in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the National Gender Policy of the Federal Government of Nigeria.   The policy was launched on 9th May 2023, at the Service National Headquarters, Abuja at an epoch-making ceremony witnessed by the Minister of Women…

Tinubu urges Adamawa to Vote First Female Governor ….. Says Buhari has laid solid foundation for Nigeria

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All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Monday in Yola, Adamawa State, called on the people of the state to vote the first female governor in the country. He was canvassing support for the party’s governorship candidate in the state, Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed Binani, said she has all it required to become governor. “She is brilliant, driven and results oriented. He will perform better for the state,” he said at the well-attended rally at the Maidoki Ground in Yola. Speaking about President Muhammadu…

Pauline Tallen lauds NHRC/CSOs forum, says it will deepen rights protection

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Ahead of the 2022 International Human Rights Day (IHRD), the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen has lauded the National Human Rights (NHRC) and Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) forum organized by the Commission, described it as a veritable intiative that will deepen the promotion and protection of human rights, particularly among the the vulnerable group in the country. According to the Minister at the event titled, “Dignity, Freedom, and Justice for All” in commemoration of this year’s IHRD on the 10th of December, there is every need for the…

NHRC Boss charges MDAs, CSOs on NAP compliant intervention programs

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The Executive Secretary National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Tony Ojukwu Esq. has charged Ministries Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to programme their intervention activities towards addressing a clearly identifiable challenge on human rights as indicated in the National Action Plan (NAP) for the promotion and protection of human rights in Nigeria. The NHRC Boss who stated this in Abuja at a “UN and Partners Dialogue on Human Rights Priorities in Nigeria”, observed that the idea of developing a national action plan for the promotion and protection…

Pauline Tallen lauds Nigerian Military over gender policy

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The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Dame Pauline Tallen, has hailed the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, for launching the Armed Force of Nigeria Gender Policy (AFNGP). The Minister gave the commendation Tuesday 27 July 2021, during her visit to the CDS, at the Defence Headquarters (DHQ), Abuja. According to Dame Pauline, “we want to celebrate and thank you (CDS) for launching the gender policy for the Armed Forces of Nigeria (AFN), which has encouraged other security agencies and paramilitary to emulate this modest achievement…

Kwara Gov bags UN He-for-She Award

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Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq on Monday received the United Nations-backed ‘HeforShe’ Award for his efforts and cabinet picks which have mainstreamed gender inclusion in the state’s political structure. The award was conferred on the Governor in Ilorin, the state capital, when the Minister of Women Affairs Dame Pauline Tallen paid an advocacy visit to rally the people of the state behind the national campaign against gender-based violence. AbdulRazaq made history last year when he appointed the most women-friendly cabinet on the African continent, a feat he recently cemented with…

Nasarawa distributes 4000 bags of wheatflour, 500 gas cylinders as palliatives to women

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The Nasarawa State Ministry for Women Affairs, has commenced the distribution of 4000 bags of 5kg wheat flour to women, being food items sent to the state by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, as palliative to women in the state. Flagging off the distribution of the food items at a ceremony at the Government House, on Wednesday, Nasarawa State Governor, Engr Abdullahi Sule, appealed to officials handling the distribution to ensure that only those in dire need of the food items, benefit. Gov Sule equally appealed…

Lawan receives HeForShe Award,pledges to support women participation in all spheres of life

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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Tuesday pledged to give more support for women participation in governance, politics, business and other spheres of life. Lawan made the pledge in a speech after he was presented with an award of HeForShe by a group of women led by the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen in Abuja. He said, “I believe we should give our women all the opportunities available for them to participate not only in governance but in all spheres of life, because governance is limited. “The…

Ex Liberian President Sirleaf, Amina Mohammed, Pauline Tallen, others for Kwara Gender confab

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Kwara State Government will on Thursday hold its 1st Annual Gender Equality Conference with prominent gender rights advocates, diplomats, and policy leaders drawn from across the ECOWAS subregion and beyond slated to speak, a statement said on Wednesday. The conference is to be jointly hosted by Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and the First Lady Dr (Mrs) Olufolake AbdulRazaq, the statement added. It is themed ‘Galvanising the Will to Take Actions on Gender Equality and Women Empowerment’, featuring speakers such as the former Liberian leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf; United Nations…

We’ll immortalise Rashidi Yekini-Kwara Gov

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Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq has said the administration would hold consultations with various stakeholders in the state especially in the sports industry as the state is poised to rename a major monument after the late Football legend Rashidi Yekini. The Governor said the consultations would be followed by him forwarding a bill to the Kwara State House of Assembly to rename a major sports facility — possibly the stadium complex or its main bowl — after Yekini who scored Nigeria’s first World Cup goal in US 94. He said…