LASG HOSTS Y2024 WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY TO EMPOWER, CELEBRATE WOMEN. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.

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 LASG HOSTS Y2024 WOMEN'S ASSEMBLY TO EMPOWER, CELEBRATE WOMEN Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has reaffirmed his administration's commitment to advancing and empowering women, describing them as the pillars of communities, contributing in numerous ways as mothers, entrepreneurs, educators and leaders.  Governor Sanwo-Olu stated this in his keynote address at the 2024 Women's Assembly for Local Government and Local Council Development Areas organised by the Ministry of Women's Affairs and Poverty Alleviation (WAPA) at the De Blue Roof, LTV 8 complex, Agindigbi Ikeja.  The Governor, represented by the Secretary to the State Governor, Bimbola Salu-Hundeyin, described the Assembly as a critical platform for celebrating women’s contributions and tackling challenges affecting their well-being. He restated his administration’s commitment to prioritising women through policies and programmes aimed at economic empowerment, political inclusion, and grassroots engag...

FORMER MALI COUP LEADER AMADOU,STARTS HUNGER STRIKE.

Coup leader Captain Amadou Sanogo attends a ceremony as former parliament speaker Dioncounda Traore (unseen) is sworn in as Mali's interim president in the captial Bamako, April 12, 2012. REUTERS/Malin Palm                          General Amadou Sanogo,former Mali coup leader starts hunger strike over his conditions while on detention.Two years ago he allowed Islamist to seize it's desert north.He was arrested and chaged with complicity in kidnapping last November with regard to the disappearance during the 2012 coup of dozens of paratroopers,loyal to president Amadou Toumani Toure.Authorities have discovered 30 bodies,some of them wearing military uniforms,in mass graves near the headquarters of the coup leaders at the military barracks in the town of Kati,just outside the capital Bamako.He is protesting over his transfer to Lakeside town of selingue prison,150km{90miles} south of Bamako.His lawyer said this had left him cut off from his family and legal advisers,deprived him of medical care and placed him in danger.''He is going to observe a hunger strike and also to abstain from medical treatment''.The current President,Ibrahim Boubacar Keita,elected last August,is under pressure to restore the state's authority over the army and to root out pockets of remaining Islamist rebels in the north.A French led military intervention last year helped break the Islamist grip over the desert region.

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