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Minister sets girlchild education, mentorship agenda

By Nana Musa
Girlchild
Abuja, Aug. 27, 2019 (NAN) The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen, has promised to promote women empowerment, mentorship and girlchild education as her agenda.

This is contained in a statement issued by Ms Judith Ogbogu, the Head, Press and Public Relations Unit, National Centre for Women Development (NCWD).

Tallen spoke when she received the management team of the centre led by the Director-General, Mrs Mary Eta, on Tuesday in Abuja.

She commended the centre for initiating women focused programmes and activities, including the facelift given to the centre.

Tallen also commended Eta for establishing the E-dashboard for sex offenders, pledging the ministrys’ support.

The minister also pledged to boost training for women especially in the science field and IDP camps so as to meet up with the shortfall in partnership with the private sector and international donor agencies.

Eta had earlier congratulated the new minister on her appointment, saying the E-dashboard recently introduced was to capture sex offenders.

She disclosed plans to liase with the Ministry of Labour to effect “non-employable status” on such offenders.

The director-general presented some items produced by trainees of the centre, to which Tallen admised them to liaise with the Export Promotion Council and improve on the packaging.

The project would also to attract more patronage and economic enlargement within African countries.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Permanent Secretary, Mrs Ifeoma Anagbogu, and other Directors in the ministry were present during the visit. (NAN)
NHM/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

General news

Mental Distress: Psychologist recommends mentorship

Mental Distress: Psychologist recommends mentorship
By Ummul Idris
Distress
Abuja, Feb. 1, 2019 (NAN) Dr Chibube Afam, a clinical psychologist, has canvassed for mentorship to arrest the rising scourge of mental illness among youths in the country.
Afam made the call while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
He said that one of the best ways to address the menace of mental distress among youths was to engage a role model.
According to him, Nigerian youths need a role model to influence their lives positively in curbing the vices associated with unrest and mental distress.
“You know mental distress as it concerns youths are very sensitive, and the need to monitor this stage of their development is key,” he said.
He described the youth as a young adult that is trying to find balance in life, noting that between age 15-24, they will be trying to find their ways in life.
He advised parents to note that at such age they had not left childhood and they were not yet in adulthood; hence, they were at a very special stage and must be mentored.
According to him, at this age, they will be trying to find balance and could be influenced by their peers, families, friends and the society they grow with.
“So these set of people, because of where they fall developmentally, they are prone to becoming distress a little bit more than others.
“Youths are very likely to become mentally distress if they are not well guided from their homes, schools and churches.
According to him, such things like bereavement, lack of economic power, what they watch can easily influence them.
The psychologist stated that because the youth watch a lot of movies and pick from the media and music, they could easily be influenced by those things, causing them not to do well in school.
He said it could lead to distress and lack of sleep, adding that when they tried to please their peers or feel among, they then tend to experiment a lot and even drug that their peer introduce to them and this could lead to distress. (NAN)
UMD/MST
Edited by Muhammad Suleiman Tola

General news

(Audio) Leadership mentoring for youths can help secure better future for Nigeria — Official

Nigeria

By Ibukun Emiola

Ibadan, Oct. 10, 2018 (NAN) Equipping young people with the appropriate leadership skills through mentorship, can go a long way toward securing a better future for Nigeria, an official has said.

Mr Seye Oyeleye, who is the Director General, Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Wednesday.

Oyeleye, who was speaking on the paucity of leaders in the country, said that with proper mentoring, young people would be exposed to leadership experience at a young age.

Cue in audio (Oyeleye)

“One of the challenges we have in Nigeria, particularly in our region, is that there is paucity of leaders.

“So it’s our duty here to make sure that these young ones quickly imbibe that culture and how do you do that? You mentor them.

“Put them in organisations where they have that sense of belonging; where they are able to contribute at a very young age.

“So by the time you put a 21 year old in a company and he is being mentored, within four to five years when he or she is 25, they already have a lot of experience behind them.

“They are ready to assume leadership positions; the situation we have at the moment where you look at the CV of a 30 year old and you find that he (or she) has not done anything in his life, how can that person be a leader?

“Those are the gaps that DAWN is plugging.”

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Oyeleye stressed that enabling the young people to contribute immensely to the growth and development of the country at a young age would create a strong foundation for Nigeria to be ranked among the comity of nations.

NAN reports that the DAWN Commission is the dedicated technocratic institution for the sustainable development of the Southwest Region.

It was set up by the governments of the Southwest states of Nigeria as the institutional and programme management body to midwife their Regional Integration Agenda. (NAN)

IBK/DOR/YEE

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Edited by Nyisom Dore/Emmanuel Yashim

Health

Foundation engages youths on HIV programme

Foundation engages youths on HIV programme
By Talatu Maiwada
Mentorship
Abuja, May 23, 2018 (NAN) AIDS Health Care Foundation (AHF), an NGO, says it will commence a safe space HIV and AIDS mentorship programme for young people to empower them to become peer educators.
Mr Steve Aborisade, Advocacy and Marketing Manager, AHF Nigeria, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said the HIV and AIDS mentorship programme, which would commence in June, would be a multi-institutional model that would be replicated in all parts of the globe with young people at the lead.
Aborisade said the objective of the programme was to scale up HIV and AIDS prevention services so as to curb new HIV infection amongst youths, especially young women and girls.
He said the programme was also aimed at ensuring that young people living with HIV are enrolled and retained in HIV care for improved health outcomes.
“According to UNAIDS, despite progress made in HIV and AIDS response, young people especially women and girls continue to be disproportionately affected by HIV.
“In 2014, over three million young people between 15 and 24 years were recorded to be living with HIV, while more than 600,000 became newly infected.
“However, AIDS became the leading cause of death among young people in Africa, while for young women and girls the figures are grimmer with over 300,000 new infections occurring annually,’’ he said.
Aborisade further noted that the troubling statistics and trends highlighted the need for AHF to fully expand its advocacy and prevention interventions for young women and girls.
He added that AHF Africa had conducted a mobile survey and focus group discussions in South Africa, Uganda and Nigeria with key focus on HIV and STI prevention and treatment awareness.
Others include sexual reproductive health, availability and accessibility of youth friendly centres, communication, messaging and preferred campaign strategies. (NAN)
TIM/HS/MST
Edited by Halima Sheji/Muhammad Suleiman Tola