The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is set to introduce gender testing before the next African Women Championship in 2010. Equatorial Guinea hosted and won the last edition, but their victory was tainted by protests from Cameroon and Nigeria that two of the players used were men.CAF declined to act on the protests but Kick-Off gathered from the tournament's Technical Study Group, that the continental body had decided to act before the next tournament, which will also be the qualifiers for the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

THE Police in Nakaseke district are holding five suspects in connection with the murder of a 70-year-old woman at her home on Saturday night.

THE First Lady, Mrs. Janet Museveni, has appealed to women in leadership to be exemplary.

Happy New Year to you all. As we enter a new dawn, let us reflect on the achievements women have made and think about the areas where change still needs to be seen.

PADER district chairman Peter Odok W'Ocheng has advised Acholi parents not to allow their daughters to get married to lousy and violent men.

AFTER the 1961 general election, Helen Suzman was the only member of her new party re-elected to Parliament. Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd gloated triumphantly, saying to her: "I have written you off." She replied: "The whole world has written you off."

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) are set to introduce gender testing before the next African Women Championship in 2010.

Born in Bizerta on January 2, 1909, Tawhida Ben Cheikh, the first Tunisian and Arab female physician, celebrated on Friday her hundredth birthday.

A law passed in November 2008 prohibiting female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the state of Southern Kordofan is unique in Sudan. But for it to translate into genuine abolition, deep-seated attitudes and misinformation will have to be overcome.

A select group of reporters and some staff of Bayero University, Kano had waited patiently at the office of Dr Umar Faruq Jibril, the Head of Department of Mass Communication, of the institution to speak with the Head of BBC Hausa Service, Jamila Tangaza.

Detectives at the Mararaba Police Station are trying to find out why a 30-year-old housewife Olajimoke Ilesonmi allegedly set her husband and their four-month-old son ablaze in their apartment at Mararaba, Nasarawa State, on Christmas eve.

THOUSANDS of youths and women, in collaboration with the Edo State chapters of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and Civil Society Organisations, yesterday, protested the deplorable state of the Benin-Lagos expressroad and the Benin-Okene expressroad.

Clarisse Bilai, 29, has been working as what she calls a "house girl" for almost 10 years, living first with her aunt in central Togo in the town of Sokode before they moved to the capital Lome. Having left her birth country, Ghana, at age nine, Bilai helped clean her aunt's house while she made money as a street vendor until age 23. But she wanted more, she told IRIN.

The Federal Government is to partner with Canada in the implementation of a new policy framework on Millennium Development Goals gender related issues.

An Abuja-based Muslim cleric has called on Muslims in the country to educate their children, especially the female ones, in order to eradicate poverty from the society.