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More Illiterates in the World Today 1min. 37secs. Nearly one billion
people will enter the new millennium
unable to read or write.
Exploding the Myths about Ageing 2mins. 42secs. The World Health
Day 1999 celebrates active ageing
with global awareness campaigns and policy initiatives.
Rhino Populations are on the Increase 52secs. WWF Rhino Conservation
programme is proving successful
as the populations of the endangered Black and White rhinos increase.
Features
Israeli Beekeepers Urge Nigerians to Keep Bees. 3mins. 6secs. Visiting
Israeli beekeepers find great potential in Nigeria
for producing honey.
Danger: A World Water War Looming 3mins. 7secs. Nations may fight
over water in the future unless
something is done urgently to manage what is
left in a sustainable manner.
New Research Initiative against Malaria. 1min. 38secs. Wellcome
Trust invests over US$ 700,000 to combat
malaria disease in Africa.
Commonwealth Helps Uganda Uplift Women. 2mins. 46secs. Uganda
is the best place to be for gender issues today.
Special Features
Historical Quotations on Conservation and Development… The Code of Hammurabi.
26secs.
…Albert Einstein. 15mins.
…Anonymous. 6secs. …Charles Lindbergh 6secs.
…A Malagasy Proverb 3secs. …Mencius, a Disciple of Confucius 49secs.
Useful Quickfacts
Free Money from Mother Nature 18secs. Some farmers have it easy in
Israel
The Sting of Life. 56secs. Find out why beekeepers believe that
they
live longer than other people do.
1900s: The Century of Galloping Consumption. 19secs. Will the
1900s be remembered as the age of
uncontrolled use of earth's resources? 1
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Freshwater Pollution. 21secs. America is blessed with the largest
freshwater resource,
but dumps huge amounts of waste in it.
An Ageless Problem. 15secs. The ancient Egyptians can teach us,
their descendants,
a couple of things about water management.
Everybody Lives Downstream 11secs. Water makes us neighbours.
"Population Ageing." 32secs. Women are having fewer children
as the life span of people increases.
Malnutrition. 6secs. One in every five persons is malnourished.
Alcohol Abuse. 15secs. Advanced countries can't seem to control
alcoholism in their societies.
Children's Section
The Gardeners of the Ant World. 2mins. 48secs. Some types of ants
grow their own food, just like human beings do.
How Hare Made Life Safer For Animals 3mins. 23secs. Brave little
Hare saves the animal kingdom from
the terror of a silent hunter.
Do You Know Any Plant That Feeds on Living Things? 2mins. 14secs. Learn
about plants that catch and eat animals.
Women's Issues
Quotations from Nigerian Women on the Move
Support for a Female Councillor. 42secs. Self-Interest, not Gender, Matters.
13secs.
The Grain Seller's Choice for President. 15secs. A Vote for Democracy in the
Home. 54secs. 2
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News
Ghana Targets the Tourism Industry 53secs. A programme started
in the 1990s to boost its tourism in Ghanaian has proved successful,
and spurred them to set new targets. The programme aimed to increase the number
of visitors to Ghana to 370,000 by 1995. According to the Ministry of Tourism,
300,000
tourists visited Ghana in 1996, generating a revenue of about =N= 23,000,000,000
(23 billion naira). This target was achieved through aggressive marketing and
stability in
government, the report said.
Encouraged by the result, the ministry has embarked on a 15-year national tourism
development plan. Details of this plan are not yet available, but it would involve
other
sectors of the Ghanaian economy to encourage quick and comfortable tourist visits
to Ghana.
Newslink Africa.
More Illiterates in the World Today 1min. 37secs. One in every six
people in the world would enter the new millennium unable to read a
book or even sign their name, according to a recent report by the United Nations
Children's Fund (UNICEF).
In its annual survey, "State of the World's Children 1999", UNICEF said that
the growing number of illiterates are mostly women. They not only lack the basic
knowledge
to operate a computer, but are also unable to understand a simple application
form. This is so at a time when modern technology is making ideas and knowledge
available, faster
to more people than ever before.
According to the UNICEF report, there are a number of reasons for this high
rate of illiteracy occurring mostly in the developing world, particularly in
sub-Sahara Africa.
Many children cannot afford education because they work full time. Others have
no school to attend, or the school may be located too far from home or lack
books, supplies
and well-trained teachers.
National poverty is an additional reason. The world's poorest countries carry
a debt burden of about 200 trillion naira, making it extremely difficult for
them to invest in
education.
UNICEF has said that to achieve education for all children, the world must spend
=N= 630 billion each year for the next 10 years.
Agitprop News.
Exploding the Myths about Ageing 2mins. 42secs. Older people will grab
world headlines this year, from April 7, when the World Health
Day and the International Year of Older Persons is launched. The theme this
year, 3
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"Active Ageing makes a difference," recognises that it is important for older
people to go on playing important roles in society, uninhibited by the stigma
associated with old age.
There are 580 million people over 60 years of age, and 355 million of them are
in the developing world. By 2020 there will be over 1,000 million people over
60 years with
700 million in the third world.
In a publication to commemorate the World Health Day 99, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO), said that the ageing
of the
global population is one of the biggest challenges and great opportunities facing
the world in the 21 st century.
"Older people are often viewed as a homogenous group from mainly industrialised
countries, who no longer contribute to their families and societies, and may
even be a
burden," she said. "The truth could not be more different. The majority of older
people prove these notions wrong every day, and it is an example that inspired
the WHO to
focus on ageing," Dr. Brundtland added.
WHO's strategy to raise awareness of the issue include establishment of a "Global
Movement for Active Ageing" – a network of people interested in moving policies
and
practices towards active ageing – and the "Global Embrace" programme, a series
of walk events spanning the entire globe.
The walks start in New Zealand at the beginning of the day on October 2 nd
. It will be staged at groups of cities at set times within the same time zones
around the world.
Among the policy action points that WHO would promote during the year are balanced
nutrition and health activities for girls and women, breastfeeding, immunisation
programmes and sanitary environments. There will be campaigns to ban advertising
of certain products including milk powder for babies, tobacco and alcohol. Others
include
legislation against gender and age discrimination, and increase in awareness
education about health, nutrition, exercises in all spheres of social life.
WHO
Rhino Populations are on the Increase 52secs. The highly endangered
Black and White rhinos now look certain to survive. New
estimates show that both species are slowly increasing in their closely guarded
habitats in Southern Africa.
Poaching and civil strife in the region had caused the Black rhino population
to crash from 65,000 animals in 1970 to about 2,000 in the mid-1990s. The number
has now
increased to over 2,500. The White rhino population has also increased by about
1, 000 to 8,500.
According to WWF – worldwide Fund for Nature, the recovery of these rhino
species shows that they can be conserved if adequate safeguards and conservation
strategies are
implemented in the countries where rhinos still remain. 4
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WWF
Features
Danger: A World Water War Looming 3mins. 7secs. As the population
of the earth races to its 6 billion people mark on October 12, 1999,
human survival faces an even greater danger. This is due to the rapidly diminishing
quantity and quality of freshwater available for consumption globally. According
to
Klaus Topher, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP), the world is faced with an explosive international crisis.
"Major clashes over dwindling supplies of water may well constitute the source
of future conflicts between nations," he said last month in a statement to commemorate
the World
Water Day.
Although 70 percent of the earth's surface is covered with water, nearly all
of it (97%) is salt water, and not useful for people's domestic needs, such
as in cooking, drinking,
washing, and the industry. Less than 1 percent is fresh-water found in rivers,
lakes, and groundwater that often straddle international boundaries. The rest
is preserved as glaciers
and icecaps.
"With finite freshwater resources on the one hand, and an increasing demand
on the other, the need to protect and manage water resources properly has never
been greater,"
Topher said.
Freshwater resources are also becoming increasingly polluted. About 80 percent
of all diseases and one third of all deaths in developing countries are caused
by contaminated
water. It is estimated that 25 million people die each year from diseases caused
by unsafe drinking water and lack of water for sanitation and hygiene. More
than half is young
children.
Arid and semi-arid regions of the world would be the worse hit by the impending
crisis. Coastal regions and mega-cities such as Lagos will also be badly affected.
To avert the crisis UNEP has proposed a new initiative, which would bring
all stakeholders into a co-ordinated action to increase public understanding
of the problem,
and agree on solutions.
Meanwhile UNEP has started an inventory of the state of freshwater resources.
It would also identify the key problems involved and develop economic, legal
and institutional
instruments for sustainable use.
Another UN agency, the World Water Council has established a World Commission
on Water to develop a common global vision for the use of freshwater in the
21 st century. 5
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UNEP, in collaboration with TVE – Television Trust for the Environment, has
produced films and publications as tools to raise awareness of the problems.
One of the films,
Everybody Lives Downstream, is available for dubbing at the offices of Communicating
for Change, 5A, Adeyemo Alakija Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
UNEP
Israeli Beekeepers Urge Nigerians to Keep Bees. 3mins. 6secs. Two
Israelis drove from Yankari in Bauchi State to Abuja and were fascinated by
the
wide expanse of bushes and trees that they saw along the road. Looking wistfully
at the landscape, one of them later recalled the feelings that he had.
"I saw millions of dollars sitting on top of trees. All we need are the bees
to and bring them into our pockets," he said.
Ami Maimise got a pleasant burst of laughter from his audience last month, when
he narrated this anecdote at a lecture organised by the Israeli Embassy and
the Shalom Club.
The lecture was held at Commerce House on Lagos Island.
Ami Maimise and his co-lecturer David Gertel who were on a three-week lecture
tour of Nigeria, are beekeepers. They believe that a beekeeper could make more
money in
Nigeria than in Israel – or even anywhere else in the world.
"Nigeria is free from all known bee-keeping diseases in the world," David Gertel
said, adding that, "Nigerian's can cash in on the global honey market now."
He buttressed this
claim by pointing out that beekeeping is distressed by severe attacks of diseases
nearly every where else in the world.
"A major disease attack reduced Israel's hives from 100,000 to 30,000 recently.
An attack destroyed all hives in Britain some time ago, and is wreaking havoc
in the U. S. A.,"
David said, adding that there have been major incidences also in Europe, Asia,
East Africa and Australia.
Some of the diseases have become resistant to known drugs. This is alarming
to the industry, David and Ami said.
To avoid diseases affecting the industry in Nigeria, they advised Nigerian beekeepers
to avoid the importation of bees from outside the country, and to learn to harvest
honey in
the wild without killing the bees.
Beekeeping is part of modern agriculture because several agricultural crops
must have pollination to fruit. Insects are responsible for pollination. But
David pointed out that
there are not enough insects to do so, because the use of insecticides to treat
crops also kills the insects that help to pollinate them. Beekeepers in Israel
sometimes truck their
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Other benefits of beekeeping highlighted at the lecture include: nature conservation
because beekeepers protect trees and plants their bees feed on; enriched diet
from eating
honey; increased income and added value to social occasions where honey is served.
Obasi Ogbonnaya
New Research Initiative against Malaria. 1min. 38secs. Nearly one million
dollars has been invested in a new research to fight malaria and other
diseases in Africa. The investment was made by UK-based foundation, Wellcome
Trust. The research will be conducted from the Queen Elizabeth Central Teaching
Hospital, in
Blantyre, Malawi.
The research is focused on severe malaria cases in children, pregnant women
and newborn babies, as well as in semi-immune adults. Work is also being done
on
meningitis and HIV-positive Malawian adults, anaemia in pregnant women and viral
diarrhoea in children.
The aim is to reduce sickness and deaths due to these diseases. According
to Dr. Richard Lane, Programme Director for Tropical initiatives at Wellcome
Trust, "the research
results have not only added to the growth of published research from developing
countries, but also to the management of life threatening diseases." He also
hoped that the
joint work with Malwians would help develop the skills of their scientists and
clinicians.
Other partners in the research include the University of Liverpool, which designed
the research centre, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the College of
Medicine of
the University of Malawi. Wellcome's partnership with Malawi in medical research
is over a decade old. It has made important contributions to the World Health
Organisations
recommendation for the treatment of malaria. Newslink Africa
Commonwealth Helps Uganda Uplift Women. 2mins. 46secs. "Ugandan women
have decided not to tolerate injustice any longer." So reads a recent
news report on gender issues in Uganda. And if the history of gender awareness
and gender positioning in that country is anything to go by, the women are likely
to have their
way.
The target of their grievance is the controversial issue of land ownership.
If a man dies, his family immediately inherits his property, and his wife is
left with nothing.
Already Female members of the Ugandan parliament have taken a firm stand against
this custom and are supporting a Land Reform Bill currently before parliament.
The Bill
stipulates that women should be given co-ownership over matrimonial property.
Women are represented at all levels of government and have established an array
of vocal civic groups in Uganda. President Yoweri Kaguta Musoveni, appointed
a female vice
president, Dr. Specioza Kazibwe, to demonstrate his supports for women's emancipation
in his country. He is expected to support this latest drive for more equality
for women in
the Uganda family. 7
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If the considerable power women appear to have in Uganda is a surprise in Africa,
the explanation goes back to 1991 when Africa's first Department for Women and
Gender
Studies was established at Kampala's Makarere University to run a Masters degree
course in women studies. The department was established with aid from the
Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation (CFTC).
The department currently has 33 students on the programme and plans to establish
an undergraduate programme in October. However, most of the students are working
women and social activists who need to improve their activities. So, short-term
evening classes have been established to train a wider community of people to
develop awareness
of gender issues.
Experts funded by the Commonwealth to train the women are amazed by their achievements
in such a short time.
"I'm being educated by everything that's happening here," Clare Bishop, a
British agricultural economist said. Her colleague, Rosemarie McNairn added
that "As far as
Uganda goes, gender issues and gender activism are far more advanced here than
in some industrialised countries. Uganda is one of the most fascinating places
to be for gender
issues." Newslink Africa.
Useful Quickfacts
Free Money from Mother Nature 18secs. Did you know that Israeli
farmers earn over =N= 900,000,000 annually just by keeping
bees? And you don't even need land or water to keep bees! The first farmers
association in Israel, formed more than 60 years ago, was actually a bee-keeping
organisation.
Obasi Ogbonnaya.
The Sting of Life. 56secs. Would you like to get stung by a bee? You
probably wouldn't. But we believe that you'd
change your mind after this fact. Beekeepers believe that bee venom actually
prolongs human life. Although this notion may come as surprise to you, it has
actually translated
into big business elsewhere. So, to live a little longer, a bee can sting you.
We are not sure whether a few more stings will translate into a few more extra
years added.
You may say that not everyone can afford to be stung, and that people have
been stung to death in the past. Yes. However, for about =N= 1,000,000 you could
by one gram of bee
venom and … live it up! Obasi Ogbonnaya
1900s: The Century of Galloping Consumption. 19secs. The 1900s would
be remembered as the age of phenomenal growth in the consumption of
the earth's finite resources. Statistics show that the global economy grew 20-fold,
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fuel consumption 30-fold, industrial activity grew 50-fold, and the human population
more than tripled.
UNEP.
Freshwater Pollution. 21secs. The Great Lakes basin is the world's
largest freshwater ecosystem. And to keep it so, as
well as maintain a navigable depth of water for ships, about four million cubic
meters of sediments are dredged from them. Over half of the sediments constitute
hazardous
wastes. UNEP
An Ageless Problem. 15secs. The desire to meet demand for water to
drink, cook and produce goods appears to have
always demanded ingenuity. In 3,000BC Pharoah Menes of Egypt dammed River Nile
and diverted its course.
UN
Everybody Lives Downstream 11secs. Nearly 40 percent of the world's
five billion people lives alongside international rivers,
and depend on international agreements to ensure their water supply. UN
"Population Ageing." 32secs. More people in the world are living to
reach old age while fewer children are being born.
This tendency which is known as population ageing seems to be the trend for
the future. It has been noticed in countries in Europe, North and South America
and Asia where
fertility rates (that is the total number of children a woman is expected to
have) have decreased from about 6 to 2.
WHO
Malnutrition. 7secs. About 900 million people worldwide went to bed
daily, without a balanced diet in the
1990s WHO
Alcohol Abuse. 15secs. According to the report on "The Global Burden
of Disease" released in 1996, alcohol is
the leading cause of male disability in industrialised countries, and fourth
largest cause in men in developing countries.
WHO
Children's Section
The Gardeners of the Ant World. 2mins. 48secs. What do you think
ants eat? Your left over food, dead insects, animals or even wood. But
did you know that some ants actually grow their own food? 9
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The leafcutter ants of Central and South America grow the fungi they eat. They
work just like farmers, using their powerful saw-toothed jaws to cut fresh leaves
from plants for
growing fungi.
The leafcutter ant is not the only ant that grows fungi. But it is the only
one that exploits living plants to grow its food. Others fungus-growing ants
cultivate their fungi with dead
organic matter such as insect corpses or withered plants.
How do they do it? Like other ants, the leafcutters have their own 'caste' system.
The largest workers are the foragers who find the leaves and saw through them
using their
vibrating mandibles. The sound of the sawing attracts other ants to the site
to finish off the job. The crescent-shaped bits of leaf are then carried back
to a special growing
chamber in the underground nest.
Then ants belonging to another 'caste' chew the bits into pulp and add some
enzyme-rich feacal fluid as fertiliser. This is the soil in which a small amount
of fungus from older
chambers is planted. As the fungus grows, spreading like frost over the soil,
yet other ants clean and weed the garden. Finally the 'crops' are harvested
for all the family to eat.
Interestingly, the leafcutter is a wise farmer. Although about 15 percent
of all South America rainforest leaf production is removed by leafcutter ants,
they seldom strip a tree
bare. As fungi are grown, fungicidal chemicals are also produced. And to avoid
getting too much of any type of fungicidal chemicals (which may stop the growth
of fungus in
their garden) the ants constantly use a variety of leaves from different plants
for their gardening.
They are also environment friendly farmers. In the process of building huge
underground nests up to five metres deep and over 10 metre in diameter, leafcutter
ants turn over and
aerate large quantities of earth, creating better soil for plants and trees
to grow. But people treat these ants as crop pests and kill them with insecticides.
WWF
How Hare Made Life Safer For Animals 3mins. 23secs. Once upon a time,
Lion had a gentle voice, not very loud at all, and so he was able to
catch and eat the other animals without much trouble. This, of course, greatly
worried the other animals, since they never knew when Lion was on the hunt.
They decided to hold a
meeting to find a way of somehow making Lion less dangerous.
They talked for a long time, but none of them could think of anything. Hare,
always the imaginative one, then had a bright idea.
"I know a way that would make Lion's voice like the terrible thunder of a
summer's storm," he said, "and then we would always know when he was coming."
The other
animals all agreed that it was a marvellous idea. But how was Hare going to
manage such a thing? Hare just winked and set out on his difficult task. 10
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Eventually, Hare found Lion resting beneath a shady umbrella tree, and approaching
him carefully, saying, "O great one, I am truly most unhappy to bring you bad
news, but your
brother is very ill and requests to see you at once." Lion was dreadfully upset
to hear this news, and told Hare to lead him to his brother as fast as possible.
Hare then took Lion for miles and miles around the Bush and after several
hours Lion (who, after all, had been disturbed during his morning sleep) was
so weary he could go
no further. He lay down in a shady spot and slept.
Now, with the help of a honey guide bird, the crafty Hare found a nest of wild
bees in a tree not too far away. After following the required custom of leaving
a good piece of
honey comb as a "thank you" for the little bird, Hare took some of the honey
and dribbled it all over the paws and head of the sleeping lion. Hare then ran
off to some thick bushes
nearby and hid.
When the bees returned home and saw that someone had raided their hive, they
were terribly angry. They soon found Lion sleeping nearby, with honey all over
his paws and
face. In a raging swarm, the bees attacked him, and Lion was stung so many times
and was in such pain that his soft cries soon swelled to a thunderous roar that
could be heard
for miles around!
That is the story of how Lion's voice changed forever. The animals were very
grateful to Hare because, from then on, they could hear Lion's roar from a long
way away, and be
warned that the king of beasts was on the hunt. When Hippo was Hairy
Do You Know Any Plant That Feeds on Living Things? 2mins. 14secs. We
do. There are plants that feed on insects, reptiles and birds. They are called
'carnivorous plants. ' Their flowers are very large and bright and sticky or
slippery.
An example of a carnivorous plant is the Venus Flytrap. It is an insect eater.
It has three little hairs growing on the top of the 'trap. ' When an insect
touches one of them the trap
closes and shuts it inside, like a cage. Then the plant digests it with special
juices. Many types of plants that eat insects are found in marshy places in
the rain forests of South
America.
You may be sad to know that Venus Flytraps are endangered plants, and may disappear
completely soon. This is because they are exported from their natural habitats
to other
countries where people buy them to keep as 'pets. ' Many of them die because
they are in a strange environment. Others die from over feeding because people
like to watch their
traps working.
There is another plant in this category. This one is called the pitcher plant
because that is what its flowers look like. A 'Pitcher' is a large cup used
for fetching water. The plants
are found mostly in Asia, where some are so large that they can trap mice, frogs
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The plant attracts its prey by making rich nectar around the opening of the
pitcher-like flower. When the prey lands to suck the nectar, it becomes stuck.
As it struggles, it falls
to the bottom of the pitcher and drowns in the plant's digestive juice.
Scientists tell us that carnivorous plants grow in places where the soil is
not very good. The living things they catch provide them with minerals that
are missing from the soil.
Chongololo
Special Features
Historical Quotations on Conservation and Development…
…ON DEVELOPMENT
The Code of Hammurabi. 26secs. "If anyone be too lazy to keep his dam
in proper condition, and does not keep it so; if
then the dam breaks and all the fields are flooded, then shall he in whose dam
the break occurred be sold for money and the money shall replace the corn which
he has caused to
be ruined." UN/ Sumerian and Babylonian water law (1750BC)
…ON CONSERVATION
Albert Einstein. 15mins. "Concern for man himself and his fate must always
form the chief interest of all
technical endeavours in order that the creation of our minds shall be a blessing
and not a curse."
WWF
Anonymous. 6secs. "Conservation is intelligent co-operation with
nature."
WWF
Charles Lindbergh (1968) 6secs. "I don't think there is anything more
important than conservation, with the exception of
human survival, and the two are so closely interlaced that it is hard to separate
one from the other."
WWF
Malagasy Proverb. 3secs. "An empty stomach has no ears."
WWF
Mencius (372-289BC) 49secs. "The Bull Mountain was covered by lovely
trees. But it is near the capital of a great state.
People came with their axes and choppers; they cut the woods down, and the mountain
has lost its beauty. Yet even so, the day air and night air came to it, rain
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moistened it till here and there fresh sprouts began to grow. But soon the cattle
and the sheep came along and browsed on them, and in the end the mountain became
gaunt and
bare as it is now. And seeing it thus gaunt and bare, people imagined that it
was wood-less from the start."
WWF
Women's Issues
Quotations from "Nigerian Women on the Move"…
…EMPOWERING WOMEN FOR PARTICIPATION IN PUBLIC LIFE.
Support for a Female Councillor 42secs. "A woman councillor of Abi
local government area did not belong to the party that
produced the chairperson and majority of the executive council office holders.
They put her aside and did not give her a position that would expose her and
give her more
challenges. They sent a word to the Voice of Women and we took up the matter.
She was taken to the tribunal. We were there, and based on our efforts, the
matter was struck off.
She is now allowed to work freely in the Abi council." Anne Oden – VOW &
NCWRA
Self-interest, Not Gender, Matters 13secs. "If I put a woman in the
government house, it is only because I feel that the woman can
correct certain problems that might affect me and my family." Halima Isa,
United Women's Association
…ON DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE
The Grain Seller's Choice for President 15secs. "I won't mind a woman
president because I have seen men handle the affairs of the
country, but I have not seen any positive change. Maybe a woman can do it
better." Mariam Sule, grain seller, United Women's Association
A Vote for Democracy in the Home 54secs. "Democracy and governance
start from the home. In Nigeria, they do not like a wife to
have female children. After the third female child in succession, the man may
not go to the hospital to see his wife if she delivers another female child.
In fact he may go and
find another wife.
"We now let the men know that girls can take care of their families more than
men. For instance, in Nigeria, if a man marries and his mother falls ill it
is his sisters (whether
married or not) who will care for her. Women are even more useful than men are.
There is nothing that a man can do that a woman cannot do."
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Acronyms
CTFC: Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation
TVE: Television Trust for the Environment
UN: United Nations
UNEP: United Nations Environmental Programme
WHO: World Health Organisation
WWF: World Wide Fund for Nature. 14
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