Sultan Backs African Traditional Leaders’ Conference On Women’s Rights

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has fixed his provisional confirmation to enactment successful the forthcoming African accepted leaders’ league connected women’s rights and gender-based violence, GBV, scheduled for February 2026 successful Lagos.

The Sultan received the invitation during the improvement Research and Projects Centre (dRPC) ‘s courtesy sojourn to his palace successful Sokoto.

In his remarks, the Sultan commended dRPC’s work, stating that its objectives align with the Sultanate’s long-standing advocacy for women’s rights and acquisition rooted successful Islamic scholarship.

He praised the women-majority delegation for their enactment and urged accordant follow-up connected recommendations from nationalist forums.

Programme serviceman of the Ford Foundation, Mr Oumar Ndiaye,  described the league arsenic a landmark accidental for accepted leaders crossed Africa to unite successful combating GBV and advancing women’s rights.

Ndiaye applauded the Sultan’s committedness and reaffirmed the Ford Foundation’s enactment for dRPC’s efforts, stressing that “ending GBV requires corporate enactment crossed society.”

Professor Taufiq Abubakar, who led the dRPC delegation, highlighted the organisation’s Muslim Opinion Leaders, MOLs, for the Prevention of GBV successful Northern Nigeria project, supported by the Ford Foundation.

He noted that the inaugural partners with Islamic scholars to beforehand women’s extortion from an Islamic position and has produced extended publications, developed with Al-Azhar University and the Centre for Islamic Civilisation and Interfaith Dialogue—now being translated into Arabic and Hausa.

Professor Abubakar further outlined dRPC’s ongoing collaborations with Muslim scholars to code GBV and the “double stigmatisation” of survivors, a increasing societal situation successful Northern Nigeria.