The Woman's Place

Pastor Sarah Omakwu, The Senior Pastor of Family Worship Center, Abuja is 58 years today. She is not my Pastor but she is one of those women I admire from a distance.  I once sat through her Sunday sermon on "Excellence" and I can still remember almost every detail of her message that Sunday morning after several years. I was an undergraduate. May God bless you dear Pastor Sarah and may God make every grace abound unto you today and forever more. Happy birthday ma'am !

Pamela Coke-Hamilton of Jamaica has been appointed as the eight Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (ITC), the joint agency of the  She succeeds Arancha González Laya of Spain to whom the Secretary-General António Guterres has expressed appreciation for her dedicated service to the Organization. As the current Director of the Division on International Trade and Commodities at UNCTAD, Ms. Coke-Hamilton brings a breadth of experience and expertise in trade-related capacity-building and sustainable development, having served with the Jamaican Government, the Caribbean Forum (CARIFORUM) Member States in trade negotiations and multilateral institutions, including the  She brings a deep understanding of the challenges faced by vulnerable economies such as the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) having designed tailored interventions. She has worked extensively with the private sector across the African Caribbean and Pa...

BabyBliss Nigeria CEO,Jika Nwobi and MumsVillage Kenya's CEO, Millicent Maigai have come together to create a new entity, Bliss Group. I sis Nyong’o Madison, Bliss Group CEO has said in an interview that she is  excited to lead the new entity into meeting the changing needs of African women and showing that they are indeed a market that cannot be ignored.  Mums Village Kenya and BabyBliss Nigeria have merged to create the Bliss Group, a Pan-African entity focused on mother and child care. While Mums Village Kenya has proven strengths in building online communities and content for pregnant women and mothers, BabyBliss Nigeria brings deep retail and e-commerce experience. As per the agreement,  the partners  (Mums Village and BabyBliss) will combine their operations in Kenya and Nigeria to establish an entity with a larger distribution network, a strategic brand presence, enhanced scale and efficiency, thereby increasing the range and quality of baby products and serv...

This is Olufunke Ayotunde Akindele, a Nigerian Actress and Producer, Script writer and Entrepreneur. She is mostly referred to as Funke Akindele . Funke was born in her home town in Ikorodu local government area, Lagos State on the 24th of August 1977 to Mr. Richard Akindele a retired school principal and Mrs Alice Akindele, a medical doctor.  She attended Grace Children Schools, Gbagada and Lagos State Model College, Igbo-kuta for her primary and secondary education respectively. Funke has an OND in Mass Communication from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State and a Law degree from  the University of Lagos.   Her journey to stardom began when she played the role of a curious but brilliant secondary school student in a popular TV series,  I Need to Know  which aired from 1998 -2002.   I Need to Know   is a United Nations Population Fund sponsored Sitcom program  created to enlighten the public on the issues teenagers face while growing up. F...

A guidance note released by the United Nations for Population Fund (UNFPA) says that amidst the efforts to curb the spread of the  corona virus pandemic, policy makers must not loose sight of the  vulnerabilities  of women and girls, which have been exacerbated by the pandemic. Also, an online article by Medecin San Frontiers, pointed out that the corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic   is having potentially catastrophic secondary impacts on the health of women and girls   around the world. Another article on the UNDP website says that w hile the COVID-19 crisis affects everyone, women and girls face specific additional risks due to deeply entrenched inequalities, social norms, and unequal power relations.   Women may face heightened risk of exposure to COVID-19 due to their disproportional representation among health-care and social service personnel. Around the world, about 70 per cent of health and social service workers are women. Many are mid...

The Central Bank of Nigeria has said that women will be given 60 per cent of the N220bn Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund as part of its developmental role and mandate of promoting a sound financial system. It also said that two per cent of the wholesale component of the fund would go to economically active persons living with disabilities and 10 per cent provided for start-up businesses. Read more: https://punchng.com/women-to-get-60-of-n220bn-sme-fund-cbn/

This is the black beauty ; Agbani Darego with the full name as Ibiagbanidoki Asenite Darego . Agbani, a native of Abonnema in Rivers state was born in Lagos on December 22,1982 to a retired Custom official and a rice trading mother.  The six feet tall queen nursed the dream of becoming a model as a teenager but was not supported by her father till later. As life would have it she lost her mother at the age of 12 to breast cancer and her dad at age 30. Agbani had her primary education at Bereton Nursery and Primary School and secondary education at Federal Government Girls College, Abuloma. She proceeded to the University of Port Harcourt to study Computer Science and Mathematics but terminated her admission due to her busy schedule. She later enrolled at the New York University where she studied Psychology. Agbani Darego first came into limelight in 1998 when she auditioned at the "face of Africa" pageant organized by Mnet Africa and came as the runner up.  In 2001 at age...

Good things never last, they say or how can one excuse this loss?. The sad news of the untimely death of Tolulope Arotile, Nigeria's first female combat helicopter pilot, has left the Air Force and Nigerians in shock. Tolulope died  on 14 July 2020 at the age of 24,  as a result of head injuries sustained when she was hit by the reversing vehicle of an excited former Air Force Secondary School classmate while trying to greet her.   Late Tolulope Arotile was an indigene of Ijumu Local Government area of Kogi State,  born in the year 1995;  She attended Nigeria Airforce primary school and Nigeria Airforce secondary School, on the  22nd of September 2012 she  gained admission into the Nigerian Defense Academy, She was commissioned into Nigerian Airforce September 2017 and was decorated as first female combat pilot of the Nigerian Air force in October 2019 after her training in Satellite school in South Africa.  She holds a commercial pilot ...

T he Women Presidents’ Organization (WPO), a peer advisory group for million dollar plus women-led companies, is proud to announce Funmi Ogbue (Mrs), the Managing Director Zigma Limited as the newest member of the Member-at-Large   Chapter of the WPO.   “I am very pleased to welcome Funmi to the WPO,” said Marsha Firestone, Ph.D., WPO President and Founder. “As a peer advisory organization for women business leaders of multi-million dollar companies, WPO membership is highly selective. Funmi’s membership in the WPO is a testament to her incredible success in business.”   Funmi is the founder and Managing Director of Zigma , an indigenous oil and gas services company.   “ I joined WPO so as to connect to a global network of  incredible women who have singlehandedly built amazing brands and j oining WPO has been one of the defining moments for my business,” said Funmi who i s also the founder and CEO of Nigeria’s leading consulting firm Jake Riley and non-profit m...

This is Mosunmola Abudu also called Mo' Abudu nee Akintunde!. She is a 55 years old woman from Ondo State, Nigeria born in Hammersmith, West London on the 11, September, 1964 to an Engineer father and Caterer mother. She spent her early years  in the United Kingdom, she attended the Ridge way school, Mid Kent College and West Kent College. She has a master's degree in Human resource Management from the University of West minister in London.   She is married to Tokunbo Abudu and they both have two children. She became a grand mum with the arrival of her grandson whom she fondly calls TJ on February 24, 2020.   In 1987, Mo started out as a professional recruitment consultant with Atlas Recruitment Consultancy firm in United Kingdom. In 1993 she relocated to Nigeria and functioned as the head of Human Resources and Administration of Esso Exploration and production now called Exxon Mobile Nigeria.   At a point, Mo wanted to do more and so walked away from her well-p...

The Women in Energy Network (WIEN) has urged the federal government to explore the encouragement of modular refineries as a means of boosting local refining capacity of petrol. The association in its position on the downstream oil sector which was addressed to the chairman, Senate Joint Committee on Petroleum Resources also stated that government should pursue a deliberate policy of encouraging women participation in local refining by mandating 20-30% women participation in the shareholding structure of modular refineries The position which was signed by its president, Mrs Funmi Ogbue, said it is worrisome that despite Nigeria’s significant oil wealth, the country imports around 90% of the refined Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), saying it does not have refineries capacity.  The paper reads in part, “It is extremely rare for major oil producers to import PMS in such quantities. Nigeria is one of OPEC members besides the Republic of Congo and Equatorial Guinea that still imports petroleu...

The 21st century is an era that have witnessed the use of repealing laws that discriminate against women and girls, laws that created gaps between boys and girls in education, technology, public services.    Women who were before labelled as housewives, weaker vessels, Kitchen keeper, their husbands nurse; these special traits which was often manipulated to breed inferiority in women has been replaced through the advancement of education and exposure of women. Boys and girls now receive education, women are now given positions in many dominating professions such as Engineering, Military, computer programming and so on. The 21st century woman now occupies (26) percent of jobs in artificial intelligence.  Greater representation of women now questions economic systems that fails to deliver economic progress.   However, while it is important to expound the fact that the 21 st  century woman can be anything she wants to be and can do everything that can improve ...

The 21st century is the era that gave women voices to fight against gender inequality. It is an era that witnessed the use of reformed laws and systems that before prevented women from utilising their potentials.  It is an era that stressed the seriousness of the topic, "Gender Equality",  Gender equality is a term with the purpose of empowering women as much as the men and it has the agenda of giving the females as much opportunity as the men. Men dominated paid employment jobs like Medicine, Engineering, Architecture while women were dominating care taking roles like nursing, catering and so on but the 21st century witnessed better representation of women in data driven organisations.   From 1960 the year Nigeria got her independence, women participation in politics in the world started increasing although Nigeria was discovered to be one of the countries with the least female participation. As at 2019 Nigeria witnessed (20) women out of (359) members of House of R...

Before now a woman's role was solely defined by society, education and religious beliefs and often times their personal liberties are denied. This is more experienced in countries whose laws are bound by religious laws like Sudan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and so on. The primary role of a married woman is entangled around husband then children, after which she could seek a career position depending on the authority given to her.   The 21 st  century is an era that has witnessed the use of repealing laws that discriminate against women and girls, laws that created gaps between boys and girls in education, technology and public services. It is an era that gave women voices to fight against gender inequality. It is an era that witnessed the use of reformed laws and systems that before prevented women from utilising their potentials.   The 21st century is a marked era from Jan 2001- 2100.  It is an era where people master content by producing information, synthesizi...

I have been away from here for about four years! mhn...four good years! You can be sure that a lot has happened in those years. I started blogging in 2010 and just followed the trend, blogging about any and everything that caught my fancy but about 2014, I resolved to narrow my focus to topics about women and this I did and changed the name of the blog from "Amandashares" to "The Woman's blog". I kept at it and then I lost my beloved mum in whom I was and am still well pleased. She was the essence of womanhood to me. I drew a lot of strength and inspiration from her being, for she was a rare kind of woman. The curtains fell for me and I retreated. Indeed, time changes yesterday and heals wounds. I am not sure that I am quite healed from the pain her demise caused me because I remember her every single day. Though it is more than three years now but I have learnt from my place of grief not to remain in the place of obscurity , making excuses for not living the li...