FAME foundation was established to solicit, encourage and advance the social, emotional and economic wellbeing of women and girls as well as formulate programmes within the framework of national development plan with a view to enhancing the participation of women and advocate for gender parity in the society.
FAME foundation firmly believe that the entire nation, businesses, communities and groups can benefit from the implementation of programs and policies that adopt the notion of women empowerment.
In September 2013, hundreds of single women led by Suwaiba Isa stormed the streets of Gusau, the capital of Zamfara State, protesting scarcity of husbands for more than 8,000 of […]
At least, 17 women and an unknown number of children were reportedly kidnapped in Sabuwa Local Government Area of Katsina State on their way to a wedding ceremony in Funtua Local Government Area of the state. […]
Poor commitment to the implementation of policies on women rights has been said to remain the bane in actualizing the campaign against Violence and Girls against Women (VAWG) in the […]
Bayelsa State House of Assembly, yesterday, passed the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) bill into law after its third reading at plenary. The passage of the bill will enable the […]
The newly appointed Director of Studies of the National Institute, Professor Oluwafunmilayo Josephine Para-Mallam, mni, assumed duty on Monday 15 February 2021. Professor Para-Mallam is a Professor of Gender and […]
U.N. Women’s Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has called for more women in leadership roles to help the COVID-19 recovery. Only 22 countries have an elected woman head of state or government, while […]
As the world marks the annual International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, FGM, in the context of COVID-19, with the theme, ‘No Time for Global Inaction: Unite, […]
A forty-five-year-old official of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Rivers State, Mgbechi Weke, has been remanded at a correctional centre after being charged with raping a minor. Magistrate Gomba […]
A Kano Chief Magistrates’ Court, on Tuesday, ordered the remand of an 18-year-old housewife, Suwaiba Shuaibu, in a correctional centre. She was accused of stabbing her husband’s 17-year-old fianceé to […]
A lecturer of University of Nigeria Nsukka, Mr. Chigozie Odum has been suspended, This is coming after the lecturer allegedly impregnated four students of the Institution within his four years of […]