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KIND Partners with PWAN Group for Youth Empowerment Training Programme

KIND Partners with PWAN Group for Youth Empowerment Programme to empower youths, Men and woman

Are you a stay-at-home mum, a young youth, an entrepreneur, a young graduate, a Corper, a salary earner, a trader, or a businessman or woman and you want to be empowered to become a Real Estate professional as an entrepreneur?  Then this one is for you.

PWAN Group is a real estate development and investment company with over 12 years in operation and has since then developed over 500 estates across 32 states in Nigeria including the FCT. The company’s mission is to make homeownership dream a reality for all. Empowering and equipping people to become real estate giants and professionals is the company’s core commitment.

We understand the importance of empowering youths, men and women, and the good it brings to our community and nation. KIND has held its ground on working primarily in Nigeria in the areas of leadership development for young women and on collaborative projects aimed at removing barriers to women’s public participation and ending violence against women in Nigeria. in achieving our vision KIND collaborates with PWAN to train women and men to be financially stable and self-sufficient through real estate.

There are limited slots as we only have plans to train 1000 youths and women in each state of Nigeria. The benefits for participants include but are not limited to knowledge of the real estate industry, the opportunity to become a professional realtor, exposure to opportunities to make money from the industry, how to start a business in the industry with little or no money, three(3) months mentorship to establish your success after the training. “Please ensure your spot by filling out the registration form below.”

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PMB signs Disability Bill into law.

DPOs, NGOs, CSOs, the disabled community, and all civil-minded Nigerians celebrate a victory won perseverance and prayers as President Mohammed Buhari signs the Disability Bill into law on 23rd January 2019.

Here are the highlights of the Bill (culled from premiumtimesng.com):

  1. The Act prohibits all forms of discrimination against persons with disability. If an individual is found violating this law, he/she will pay a fine of N100,000 or a term of six months imprisonment. The law imposes a fine of one million Naira on corporate bodies.
  2. Discrimination against such persons is prohibited in public transportation facilities and service providers are to make provision for the physically, visually and hearing impaired and all persons howsoever challenged. This applies to seaports, railways and airport facilities.
  3. The rights and privileges of persons with a disability include education, health care, priority in accommodation and emergencies.
  4. All public organizations are to reserve at least five percent of employment opportunities for these persons.
  5. The Act gives citizens with disabilities the right to file a lawsuit for damage against any defaulter.
  6. It provides for a five-year transitional period within which public buildings, structures or automobile are to be modified to be accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities, including those on wheelchairs.
  7. Before a public structure is constructed, its plans shall be inspected by relevant authorities to ensure that the plan conforms with the building code.
  8. A government or government agency, body or individual responsible for the approval of building plans shall not approve the plan of a public building if the plan does not make provision for accessibility facilities in line with the building code.
  9. An officer who approves or directs the approval of a building plan that contravenes the building code commits an offense and is liable on conviction to a fine of at least N1,000,000 or a term of imprisonment of two years or both.
  10. In Section 31 of the Act, the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities will be established and an Executive Secretary will be appointed as the head of the commission.

 

Let us all play out part to ensure that the law is propagated and becomes fully operational across all fields of endeavors in Nigeria.

A press realease from nationalwire.com.ng, “Nigerian Women Must Demand Their Political Power, Rights – Abiola Costello”

 

Founder of Kudirat Initiatives For Democracy (KIND), Hafsat Abiola-Costello has challenged Nigerian women to demand their political power and rights.

Abiola-Costello, daughter of the presumed winner of the June 12, 1993, presidential election, the late Chief M.K.O. Abiola whose wife, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola was also assassinated in Lagos, gave the charge recently at an event organized by her organization in Lagos.

The event themed Consultative Forum on Women Political Participation in Lagos State featured several facilitators and participants from Lagos and beyond.

The activist said Nigerian women are among the strongest in the world and the most relegated on earth. “Women are not really valued in our society, we are almost like slaves. This situation is not going to change until we demand the power and the right that are ours,” she said.

READ MORE  from nationalwire.com.ng

 

FORTHCOMING EVENTS: CONSULTATIVE FORUM ON WOMEN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN FCT, ABUJA

VOICE PROJECT

 

CONSULTATIVE FORUM ON WOMEN POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN FCT, ABUJA

The Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) is organizing a consultative forum to advance the course of women political participation in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The forum is being organized under the Voice Influencing Project of KIND to seek ways of influencing relevant organizations to enable them to strengthen the capacity of women political aspirants and to foster women’s participation in politics in the FCT. Target participants at the forum include representatives of political parties, INEC, female political aspirants from the wards to the LGAs in the FCT, Democracy NGOs, female politicians and political office holders and relevant MDAs. The strategies to be articulated in this forum and subsequent engagements with the stakeholders are expected to lead to an increase in the number of women taking part in active politics and better advocacy by Democracy NGOs for women’s participation in politics.

The forum is scheduled as follows.

Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Venue: Fountain Hall, Rockview Royale Hotel, Abuja

Time: 10 am prompt

 

THEME – EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR BETTER POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN FCT, ABUJA

 

LEAD SPEAKER – Professor A. T. Simbine, National Commissioner, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Abuja

LCCI WOMEN GROUP WORKSHOP

On Tuesday 28th November 2017, the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Women Group) organised a workshop themed “Women Empowerment and National Development: The Nexus of Policies, Laws and Practice”. @ the Henry Fajemirokun Hall, Commerce House Victoria Island, Lagos.

See Below Pictures of the Event:

 

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Hafsat Abiola-Costello receives an award at the event for her outstanding performance in supporting women political participation in Nigeria.

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