The first African woman to win Olympic gold medal Ethiopian athlete Derartu Tulu elevated to Ethiopian Athletics Federation vice Presidency following the election that took place at the national General assembly meeting. Fozia Idris is the from Afar is the other woman that joined the executive body notorious for excluding females despite their world renowned achievements.
Ever in improvement since world all-time greatest distance athlete Haile G/Selassie elected Ethiopian Athletics Federation President as world renowned athlete G/Egziabher G/Mariam his deputy, now introduced a new development steering women’s in to decision making positions. Here comes Ethiopian Greatest ever Women athlete with two Olympic gold medals under her belt Colonel Derartu Tulu taking the vice presidency with a sliding majority of the General assembly while Afar’s Fozia Idris won the election for the executive seat after a two round ballot against strong contender from Oromia Aziza Abdi.
Though the International Athletics governing body IAAF pushed for at least a 30% women representation in each of its subjects yet so many countries including some from the developed nations are behind the bench mark while Ethiopia home to huge number of world renowned female athletes the likes of Gete Wami, Fatuma Roba,Trunesh Dibaba, Meseret Defar and Almaz Ayana ready soon to grace women up to fifty percent. “We have lots of proven Ethiopian women great athletes famous for taking huge decisions at international stages” Haile G/Selassie remarked at the assembly
Smiling-Killer Derartu elevated to EAF Vice-Presidency
Dangote partners with Jumia to sell cement online
In a new move designed to reduce price and ease logistics inherent in the purchase of its products, the management of Dangote Cement Plc has signed a pact with the foremost e-commerce platform Jumia Nigeria to offer for sale its cement to customers online.
At the unveiling of the deal in Lagos, Dangote Cement, Key Account Director, Chux Mogbolu said Dangote Cement was happy to partner with online shopping giant, in a bid to make Dangote cement available with ease to customers.
According to the deal, Nigerians and corporate bodies wishing to purchase a minimum of 300 bags of 50kg of Dangote Cement and above can now order on Jumia from the comfort of their rooms at a reasonable price of N2,500 per bag as opposed to how much is sold in the open market and see them delivered to any place of their choice without any extra cost for transportation.
Mogbolu, however disclosed that the purchase would only be within Lagos, Port- Harcourt and Abuja for now.
He said: “Dangote Cement decided to work with Jumia Nigeria based on its credibility and excellent performance over the years in online shopping management”, adding that the new initiative would help arrest the scams perpetrated by online fraudsters who deceived the people by asking them to come and purchase Dangote Cement for N1000 per bag.
“For now, the pilot scheme is live in Lagos, Abuja and Port Harcourt, but we can extend to other cities depending on the level of demand and performance of the new deal”.
Girls making Apps
The Ministry of Science and Technology have signed an MOU with Synergy Habesha Films and Communications P.L.C. to work together for the Technovation Ethiopia 2018 project. Technovation offers girls around the world the opportunity to learn the necessary skills to become tech entrepreneurs and leaders.
Technovation Ethiopia also partners with UNESCO-IICBA committed to supporting this initiative, which aims to empower young women to take part in technology and entrepreneurship. More than 15 schools and 75 high school students (public and private schools) will participate in this competition.
Synergy Habesha Films and Communications call on all government, non-government, private companies and technology companies to participate in this great technological event and to create opportunities for girls to take part in technological innovations.
Technovation is the world’s largest and longest running tech competition for girls. Every year Technovation invites teams of girls from all over the world to learn and apply the skills needed to solve real world problems. Girls from ages 10 to 18 learn to identify a problem in their communities and to create a mobile app solution to address that problem; they learn how to communicate these ideas and translate them into a fully launched business.
Last year, Synergy Habesha Films and Communications P.L.C. collaborated with Ethio-Mosaic Events and Festivals P.L.C and UNESCO IICBA in bringing this world’s largest and longest running tech competition to Ethiopia.
Twelve teams of girls from ten different schools (60 girls) participated and presented their pitch. The mobile applications developed by the participating students focused on the goals set by United Nations; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which include Education, Health, Equality, Poverty, Environment and Peace.
The Ministry of Science and Technology will support the Technovation Ethiopia project by creating opportunities for girls in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Field.
