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RSNC GM Tasks NAWOJ On Advocacy To Rural Women …Calls For Welfare Package For Retired Members

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The General Manager, Rivers State Newspaper Corporation (RSNC), publishers of The Tide Newspaper, Mr Vincent Ake has charged Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Rivers State, to take more advocacy to rural women, especially on laws that protect their rights, so they would be able to break the silence whenever they are abused or intimidated.
He made the charge yesterday, when members of the 2019 NAWOJ Week Planning Committee paid him a courtesy visit in his office in Port Harcourt.
Ake advised that sensitisation advocacy should also be extended to market women as well as girls in secondary schools to enlighten them on these laws. He added that it is easier to secure the attention of women and girls as a women group than when men champion the same course.
“Try your best as an advocacy group to take advocacy visits to rural women, women in the market place and to girls’ schools to enlighten them on the implication of drug abuse before we lost our brilliant and intelligent girls in the society to drugs,” he said.
He maintained that NAWOJ as an affiliate of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) has been there to cater for women’s peculiar needs, adding that the issue of environment affects everybody and a shift to the black soot problems experienced in the Niger Delta region does not only affect the women, but all in the society.
He, however, commended the 2019 NAWOJ Week Workshop Topic: ‘Clean The Niger Delta, Save Our Women,’ but charged them to sensitise the public the more on how best to eradicate this black soot as it is adversely affecting the health of the people.
Meanwhile, the RSNC boss has urged NAWOJ leadership to start planning a start-up package for its members both retired and those at the verge of retiring, so that they don’t die of loneliness and frustration after retirement.
In his words: “Take care of the aging members, make a workshop on how they can plan their lives after retirement.”
The explained that loneliness and frustration triggers lots of illnesses in the body after retirement and as such should be guided against by putting these packages in place to give them hope to live on in life after retirement.
The General Manager also used the occasion to call on the body in charge of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP) to grow beyond peripheral level of the clean-up exercise into the human development stage, so that it can benefit the common man.
He emphasised that the clean-up should be fast enough, so that the environment is made clean for the people to live in, noting that the awards of contracts does not affect the common man.
Earlier, the Chairman of the 2019 NAWOJ Week Planning Committee, Mrs Chapp-Jumbo Ilanye, had stated that the committee was on an advocacy visit to the corporation to seek for blessings and counsels on the way forward for the success of the NAWOJ Week.
Jumbo noted that NAWOJ was created basically to meet peculiar needs of women through the organisation of workshops, trainings, advocacy and public awareness sensitisation in order to ensure that justice is given to the women in the society.

 

Susan Serekara-Nwikhana & Emmanuel Daniel

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The Wise Woman

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The wise woman builds her home. Mothers are supposed to live exemplary lives. The roles of mothers in the building of the modern Christian home cannot be overemphasized.
The function of the mother is to help the man build the home. She is a helper. A helper to the husband when the man is not doing well. It is important for the wise woman to assist when the man is not able to meet up with the items needed in the home.
A wise woman needs to reference God first and then the husband. Also the wise woman should respect her husband.
Caring for her own children as well as others is very crucial.
Do not despise children from other mothers. Discipline the child who is going the wrong way.
Ensure family bonding, show love and don’t discriminate. Connection with children is very important, especially the females. Find out who is her friend. Also find out the kind of lives they live. Caution, counsel and guide so that they make good partners.
Teaching children the dos and donts should start from birth. Inculcate the word of God in them so that when they grow, will not depart from it.
From the Scripture, some women influenced their families positively. Virgin Mary influenced the world, she never destroyed herself hence she gave birth to Jesus Christ.
Elizabeth, despite her age, God blessed her as she waited patiently.
A wise should curb favouritism in the family and love children equally. Whether a child is your biological child or not, it is necessary to show love equally. Reprimanding the children should be the function of both man and wife.

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The Desire Of Every Woman In Marriage

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Marriage is beautiful when there is love. Before and after marriage, couples show love to themselves. But you discover that after some years, that same love turn to be something else. A lot of people start going through emotional trauma in the hands of their loved spouses.
There are many things the woman desires to keep the love on as far as marriage is concerned.
Women are blesssed with feminine abilities that can be used for good in husbands lives. With your abilities, you can create a marriage that will last till couples get old.
A woman needs
man that is honest,  trustworthy,  nice,  loving and financially stable.
There are no two ways about finance in marriage. No matter the level of love, if there is no reasonable finance,  it is always difficult to manage the home.
Referring to the Biblical belief in Genesis 3: “Your desire  shall be unto you…….. “
What this means is that whatever the woman desires in life shall be provided as far as she performs her role in her home. There are many things  the woman expects her husband to take care of.
A woman wants a husband that is not lazy,  at least helping to do one or two things when he is at home.
A man that is educated and intelligent so that they will transfer such traits to their children.
Knowing that there are traits that her husband has,  traits of taking care of people,  giving freely to people and caring for her family. She expects him to exhibit them.
A woman wants to love a husband that has family interest at heart. A man that spends time with his family,  remembering his family even as he is away from home.
No matter where he finds himself, he is not destracted by external influence. He returns home to his loved ones.
A woman should not antagonise her husband because of one error or the other. No matter the level of offence he may have committed, you still show some love.
According to the Scripture, it is with wisdom that a woman builds her home. As far as he rreturns home, you accept him as your own.
It is not as if the woman will not monitor her husband, but to certain limit.  Don’t be a monitoring spirit.  Don’t allow anything to take your joy.
Don’t loose trust in your husband. The idea of checking your husband’s phone should be discouraged. The more you check your husband and his phone, the more you loose your joy.
You can show some form of jealousy, but to an extent. Cooperation, respect and being honoured from time to time is what the woman desires.
The home should not be a battle ground for a woman and man.  A woman should be able to ask herself if the check on her husband will pay her any good.
Draw a line to a point where you checkmate your husband’s activities.
A woman wants a man that will love her and telling her you love her will be all she desires.

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The Desire Of Every Woman In Marriage

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A woman needs a man that is honest,  trustworthy,  nice,  loving and financially stable.
There are no two ways about finance in marriage. No matter the level of love, If there is no money,  it is always difficult.


Referring to the Biblical belief in Genesis 3:Your desire  shall be unto you……..
That is one aspect  the woman expects her husband to take care of.
A woman wants a husband that is not lazy,  at least helping to do one or two things.   A man that is educated and intelligent.
She knows that there is a trait that her husband has.  Traits of taking care of people,  giving freely to people and caring for her family.
A woman wants to love a husband that has family interest at heart. A man that spends time with his family,  remembering his family even as he is away from home.
A woman should not antagonise her husband because of one error or the other. No matter the level of offence he may have committed, you still show some love.


According to the Scripture, it is with wisdom that the women builds her home.
It is not as if the woman will not monitor her husband, but to certain limit.  Don’t be a monitoring spirit.  Don’t allow anything to take your joy.
Don’t loose trust in your husband.
The idea of checking your husband’s phone should be discouraged. The more you check your husband and his phone, the more you loose your joy.


The home should not be a battle ground for a woman and man.  A woman should be able to ask herself if the check on her husband will pay her any good.
Draw a line to a point where you checkmate your husband’s activities.
A woman wants a man that will love her and telling her you love her will be all she desires.

Eunice Choko-Kayode

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