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Special Report: International Widows Day – Changing the Narrative of Women’s Identity and Economic Freedom

Did you know there are an estimated 258 million widows around the world, and nearly one in ten live in extreme poverty.

While many cultures force women to become tagged and identify with widowhood as a state of mind, at LightRay Media, we are deliberately choosing to retell and change this narrative in this report by giving the insights and background that has led many women to mistakenly assume widowhood as an identity, which it is not.

A widower, a man, is not seen to be identified with that tag. Men understand that it is simply a phase, an incident that does not have the power to hold them down. Women who lost their partners are encouraged to tap into their inner worthiness and confidence to rise above the incident and not become the incident.

By admin , in Ignite Inside stories iThink! Super Conscious Woman Series , at August 5, 2023

AWiN 2023: Ejiro Umukoro on Retelling Gender Based Stories using data and data visualisation tools to discover hidden stories

In November 2023, the African Women in Media will be hosting its 2023 Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The Ignite Speaker for that Conference, Ejiro Umukoro, will be presenting a paper titled: Challenging the Narratives Around Gender-Based Storytelling in the light of her Pulitzer Centre Recognised Investigative Journalism series where she used statistics, data visualisation and insights to retell gender focused stories like never before done in any Nigeria News publication prior to Covid-19 pandemic. She reports on a pandemic within a pandemic, revealing stories, datasets and more that inspired a call to action both by the citizens as well as the legislative passage of the VAPP Bill into an Act (Violence Against Person Prohibition Act) by the Delta State Government.

Her Ignite Keynote Talk on how to retell gender stories intends to redefine how the media needs to review and ethically tell gender-based stories as they are without detracting from the real value of stories to create desired impact.

By admin , in Ignite Inside stories iThink! Super Conscious Woman Series , at August 2, 2023

Isoko Nation to get 24-Hour Gas-Powered Electricity, as Reps Adopts Hon. Ukodhiko’s Motion

The cost efficiency of gas flaring in many host communities housing both multinational coys and their operations is high in terms of both human and environmental degradation. Hon. Jonathan Ukodhiko, member representing Isoko Federal Constituency has chosen to take the bull by horn by tackling the dangerous trend where Host Communities are taken for granted when his motion, compelling oil and gas multinationals to convert gas flared to consummable electricity for the benefit of the communities, rather than waste billions of metric tonnes of flared gas, was adopted on the floor of the Green Chamber.

By admin , in Ignite Inside stories iThink! , at July 25, 2023

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