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Ogun:1000 women farmers benefit from HortiNigeria/SWAVFS empowerment initiative
By Kolawole Olayinka, Abeokuta In a bid to boost the agricultural sector and promote gender equality, the South-West Association of Vegetable Farmers and Sellers (SWAVFS) in collaboration with HortiNigeria organized event to commemorate the International Day of Women and Girls in Agriculture and Science. The event held in Imasayi, Ogun State, aimed to empower over 1000 women vegetable farmers and…
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Western Post Reporter gets international recognition
Western Post Lagos State Government House Correspondent, Adeola Ogunrinde, has grabbed an international recognition. Ogunrinde has been signed into one of the Indie publishing Houses in the United Kingdom, Fairlight Books UK. She thus becomes Nigeria’s first author to be signed into the publishing house, which has a lot of A-list writers including the British-Egyptian writer, Ola Mustapha, who published…
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Netanyahu says Israel is ‘at war’ after Hamas launches surprise air and ground attack from Gaza
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” on Saturday, after Palestinian militants in Gaza fired a deadly barrage of rockets and sent gunmen into Israeli territory in a major escalation of the long running conflict between the two sides. The Israeli military said about 2,200 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, while armed terror…
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Pace of reform toward equal rights for women falls to 20-year low, says World Bank
The global pace of reforms toward equal treatment of women under the law has slumped to a 20-year low, constituting a potential impediment to economic growth at a critical time for the global economy, a new World Bank report shows. In 2022, the global average score on the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law index rose just half a…
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Lagos begins Third Mainland Bridge rehabilitation, diverts traffic
Lagos State government has announced diversion of traffic on the Third Mainland Bridge as a result of repair of bad portions of the road. This was contained in a statement by the Commissioner for Transportation, Dr Frederic Oladeinde. According to the statement, the repair works on the bad portion of the road will start on Sunday. During the period, traffic…
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