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By Ken MejuAworkshop on prevention of mass atrocities was organized by Kebetkache Women Development and ResourceCenter with funding from OSIWA for at Sparklyn Hotel, Port Harcourt on April 5,2019. Objective was to address general increasing insecurity challenges and tofashion out how to make Rivers State habitable, particularly, in the face of prevalentmass atrocities as witnessed largely, in all parts of the state.Deliveringan overview on mass atrocities, Kingsley Ozegbe, one of the resource personsdefined it as a deliberate attack on civilians. “It is a mass violence thatconcerns everyone”, Mrs. Dumka David, a lawyer added. Mass atrocities manifestin genocide, war crimes and…

Senator Elisha AbboKebetkache Women Development and Resource Center,Port Harcourt condemns in very strong terms, the exposed abuse and torture of asalesgirl by a serving senator who was in her shop to buy sex toys with somegirls. The unwholesome display of lack of self-control and lack of respect forthe office of the Senate and women.The video of the shameful display by Elisha Abbo speaksvolumes on his unworthiness as a representative of the people in such high rankmaking him a symbol of shame and dishonor to the Nigerian government, alreadystruggling with issues of gross human rights violations.The world holds in serious contempt…

By Gift JonahWorldEducation Network, an international non-governmental organization supported byfellow organizations in Port Harcourt working to stop child abuse on June 27,2019, staged a rally and marched from Isaac Boro Park to Rivers StateUniversity school gate creating awareness against the scourge.

By Constance MejuThe marginalization women from decision-making ingovernance and exclusion has become more worrisome as the federal governmentcontinues to make effort to address this seriously impacting failure that haskept women away from effectively contributing to the development of thecountry. This fact became more as the Nigerian involvement in the OpenGovernment Initiative, OGP, a body of over 70 international governmentscommitted to promoting good governance through inclusion, transparency andaccountability were unfolded to participants at a town hall meeting in PortHarcourt recently.Addressing participants at a town hall meeting oncorruption and Open Government Partnership, OGP, organized by Kebetkache WomenDevelopment and Resource Center, Port Harcourt…

By Vincent UmohPreamble: I thought when corruption is mentioned, it simplymeans the money being embezzled by politicians and the extortion by Security personnel.Thetown hall meeting I attended, which was organized by Kebetkache Women Developmentand Resource Centre on the June 14, 2019 in Port Harcourt Tag Gender,Accountability and Open Government Partnership (OGP) opened my ears and eyes toknow the different faces of corruption.Iwill continue to feel incomplete if I don’t share the different faces ofcorruption that I took home that day. Some faces resemble a masquerade, whilesome have human faces. I hope you will patiently read the many faces ofcorruption, even…

Dr Maxwell Azuka Meju Ogwashi-Uku Community, headquarters of Aniocha South Local Government Area in Delta State have congratulated one of her sons, Dr Maxwell Azuka Meju for bagging the Reginald Fessenden Award, the highest global award in Exploration Geophysics.Dr Meju is a principal researcher at PETRONAS Centerfor Advanced Imaging, Malaysia and was recently announced recipient of the2018/2019 awardee in recognition of his innovation and contribution to the extractive industry and academia. A message congratulating Meju who began his academic pursuit from Government Primary School, Ogwashi-Uku signed by the Obi of Ogwashi-Uku, HRH Prof Chukwuka Okonjoon behalf of the Obi-in-Council, stated that…

ByIduozee Paul, Benin correspondentAn lslamic scholar in the departmentof religions, Faculty of Arts, University of Benin, Edo state, Prof. Lateef KayodeAdeyemo, has said the month of Ramadan, a fasting period recently observed by Muslims is a time Muslims help to feed and show love andcare to fellow faithful while also purifying themselves for more blessings fromAllah..The associate professor of IslamicThought and Civilization in Uniben made this explanation at the Second Editionof her Annual Ramadhan IFTAR SA’lM, a collect ie fast breaking for aboutof 250 fasting Muslims. The breakfastfeast consisted of an assortment of food, drinks and fruits, and featuredQur’an recitations,…

By Ken MejuPresident Buhari and his council membersThe place of women has been duly displaced and misplaced in our heavily male dominated environment. Perhaps that has been suggestive of holes and inadequacies that punctured and permeated the political templates which have orchestrated insensitivity, moral loss, decay and nausea in the economy as well as socio-cultural disparities.The place of women in the Nigerian governance picture has not only been displaced but misplaced by robbing them of the ability to function in grace like their male counterparts who adjudge them the weaker sex.To me, they are no weaker sex but rather,a deprived…

Nigeria isa country where the citizens gain almost nothing from government. Exceptperhaps for Abuja the state capital, in almost all the states, citizens provideall services needed for living by themselves.Whereasit is the duty of government to protect, provide water, good roads, educationalfacilities as well as power for the people, over the years government serviceshave so become decadent that people are forced to provide things for themselves;yet each year millions and billions of naira are voted by the federalgovernment for these services.Waterthough a very important commodity for sanitation and good living, has sincedisappeared from the radar of public services in most…

By Constance MejuAlthough the future to a healthy nation lies in theproper management of the hygiene and reproductive health advancementsespecially of girls, government seems not to care about this. The adolescentconstitute boys and girls between the age of 13 and 20, a large chunk of ourlarge population now over 200 million.Prof. Diuto Akanwor brought this neglect to the foretwo years ago at a workshop on women organized by Godspresence Foundation atthe University of Port Harcourt. She harped on the importance of enlighteningthese young minds on healthcare and making provisions for their healthcare toensure future sound development as those who will…