Sanwo-Olu Promises More Investments In Women To Enhance Economic Growth ;Advancement”’

Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has promised that his medication volition proceed to thrust economical maturation done immense investments successful women crossed the state.

The governor, represented by his deputy, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, stated this astatine the 2025 WAPA Connect Conference, which was held astatine the Lagos Continental Hotel, Victoria Island, and organised by the Lagos State Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA.

Sanwo-Olu said the league theme, ‘Investing successful Lagos Women: Investing successful Growth,’ reflected the administration’s imaginativeness for greater Lagos, which champions the maturation of each woman.

He added that his medication has rolled retired a women’s empowerment roadmap, showing its committedness to breaking down barriers against women.

“WAPA Connect volition assistance america successful uniting women successful Lagos to our roadmap. We person focused connected gathering argumentation to guarantee we execute our aim. Our policies are ambitious and clear, which is to beforehand our roadmap. We privation to fortify our confederation with stakeholders and are committed to improving our information transportation connected women. Our ngo is to amended women and springiness them entree to concern to physique their businesses,” helium said.

The Governor maintained that investing successful women is portion of nation-building, and his medication would proceed to prioritise sex equity and women’s empowerment.

According to him, “Lagos is dedicated to inclusive government. We are keen connected processing impactful policies. We commend the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation for this conference. We privation women to cognize that Lagos believes successful you and we volition put successful you.”

In her remark, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, WAPA, Mrs Bolaji Cecilia Dada, said the WAPA Connect league was designed to bring women from antithetic professions unneurotic to link and physique businesses.

She described the league arsenic a unsocial level wherever women tin travel unneurotic to web and stock ideas, stressing that investing successful Lagos women would lend to the city’s economical growth.

“When we empower women, we fortify families and grow our state’s economy. WAPA Connect is astir gathering bridges and empowering women to imagination bigger. When women rise, Lagos grows and the assemblage prosper,” she said.