All is set for the third edition of the Business of Education summit. The annual summit, organised by Edusko Africa, is a gathering of over a thousand top school owners, administrators and key education stakeholders in Nigeria and beyond to discuss actionable solutions to problems in our education system in […]
As anyone who has spent time with a newborn knows, babies are swaddled and be-diapered packages consisting of mucus, spittle, hiccups, and poop. With their ability to discharge seemingly any kind of liquid, it’s curious that they don’t actually produce tears when they cry. According to Live Science, newborns can fuss […]
Women entrepreneurs are less likely to quit their business than men are, new research shows. Men are 14 percent more likely to leave the businesses they set-up than women, the study found. Muntasir Alam, and Dr. Dilani Jayawarna, of the University of Liverpool Management School, analyzed data on 1,523 business […]
Vodafone Ghana has advocated collaboration in support for women in business in Ghana. Chief Executive Patricia Obo-Nai, acting as Chairperson for the launch of the AGI ‘Women in Business’ group, acknowledged that despite recognition of the impact of women globally, issues of inequality still permeates many businesses in Africa, especially […]
Breathing in polluted air may send soot far beyond a pregnant woman’s lungs, all the way to the womb surrounding her developing baby. Samples of placenta collected after women in Belgium gave birth revealed soot, or black carbon, embedded within the tissue on the side that faces the baby, researchers report online […]
The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) government in collaboration with Access Bank has launched LSETF W Initiative to empower women in the state. The initiative, which has a total loan portfolio of N10 billion, will be available for businesses that a woman holds at least 50% ownership share […]
(Amanda Dambuza, Entrepreneur, Businesswoman and Author of “Baked in Pain. Lee Ann Lancaster; Chief Growth Officer; Mama Money. Dr. Adriana Marais, founder of #ProudlyHuman, Astronaut candidate with the Mars One Project Shamina Singh, Executive Vice President, Mastercard Centre for Inclusive Growth at WEF on Africa) Gender inequality has been found […]
Protests have erupted across South Africa against gender-based violence in the country. People have taken to the streets to voice their anger that not enough is being done to protect women. Hundreds of protesters gathered outside the parliament in Cape Town, with others meeting outside the convention centre where the World Economic […]
A KwaZulu-Natal man accused of hanging his three biological children and his stepdaughter has been arrested by police. Three of the children, Siphesihle, Khwezi and Kuhlekonke Mpungose, were found hanging, by their mother, at their Wyebank home on Tuesday afternoon. Grade 11 Pinetown Girls’ High school pupil Ayakha Jiyane was found […]
In 2007, Thalitha Mukansi moved to Diepsloot, an informal township on the northern fringes of Johannesburg. She was a social worker who settled in the region because it was what she could afford, and she liked working with, and helping, victims of assault. But outside Ms. Mukansi’s window, assaults […]
