Nigeria needs $1.2bn to achieve gender equality – Minister

Hajiya Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, Minister of Women Affairs, says Nigeria requires 1.2 cardinal dollars implicit the adjacent 5 years to conscionable its sex equality and societal inclusion targets for sustainable development.

She said this during the Annual General Meeting and Founder’s Day of the League of Women Voters of Nigeria (NILOWV), connected Friday successful Abuja.

Represented by her Special Adviser, Mrs Ola Erinfolami, the curate said the authorities was exploring blended finance, public-private partnerships, and interaction investments to money programmes that benefited women, children, and families.

“We look a 1.2 cardinal dollars financing gap. Closing it requires bold partnerships and concern successful women’s advancement,” she said.

On the Reserved Seats Bill, Sulaiman-Ibrahim commended the National Assembly for supporting the determination to summation women’s governmental representation, calling it a strategical concern successful ideology and nationalist progress.

Also speaking, Dr Yahaya Abubakar, Etsu Nupe and Chair of the National Traditional Rulers Council, backed the bill, saying: “We impulse each lawmakers astatine the nationalist and authorities levels to walk this important authorities for inclusive governance.”

Prof. Olufolake Abdulrazaq, Chairperson of the Nigerian Governors’ Spouses Forum, said mobilising enactment for the measure was indispensable for women’s afloat governmental information up of the 2027 elections.

Abdulrazaq was represented by Hauwa Halira, Director-General, Nigeria Governors’ Spouses Forum.

“Nigeria’s adjacent leap guardant is lone imaginable if women’s votes pb to seats of power.”

Mrs Esther Udehi, NILOWV Founder, and Mrs Irene Awunah-Ikyegh, NILOWV President, urged grassroots advocacy to guarantee wide knowing and acceptance of the Reserved Seats Bill.

Hajiya Aishatu Bura, President of the Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), highlighted the media’s relation successful amplifying women’s voices and pushing for inclusive governmental discourse.

“Women’s voices substance not lone astatine the ballot container but successful argumentation debates, the media, and nationalist decision-making,” she said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the lawsuit besides featured a sheet league connected “Women’s Voices and the Politics of Inclusion: Leveraging Reserved Seats for Electoral Victory.”

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