Buhari: We’re Committed to Empowering Women
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday said his adminisration was committed to empowering women so that they can excel in different fields.
Speaking in Abuja when he received the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Mrs. Winnie Byanyima, Buhari pointed out that women were already holding strategic positions in his administration.
He identified the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, the civil service of the federation and others which he said were headed by women.
Byanyima had during the visit described the President as African hero following Nigeria’s exploits in handling the control of covid-19 pandemic.
The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbanjo had also in a keynote address during a webinar held by Women In Africa (WIA) to mark this year’s International Women’s Day said he was of the strong belief that ensuring women education and empowerment was necessary in Africa.
Osinbanjo said, “A child of a mother who can read is 50 per cent more likely to live past the age of five. Each additional school year increases a woman earning by 20 per cent, 2/3 less maternal deaths if mothers finish primary school.
“If we hold down half of the productive segment of our nation on account of culture or other frankly outdated considerations, we are much poorer and much more deprived as a whole. We do ourselves a favour by ensuring social and legal equality of women.”
“For many generations, women have fought these manifestations of gender inequality. Over time, the struggle has been refined to the level of a right to gender equality.
“The notion that women and men should have the same legal, social and political rights is the public law basis for feminism but something has changed in the past few years”.
Osinbajo disclosed that over 45 percent of the 500,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power graduate employment scheme were females.
Speaking in Abuja when he received the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Mrs. Winnie Byanyima, Buhari pointed out that women were already holding strategic positions in his administration.
He identified the Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning, the civil service of the federation and others which he said were headed by women.
Byanyima had during the visit described the President as African hero following Nigeria’s exploits in handling the control of covid-19 pandemic.
The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbanjo had also in a keynote address during a webinar held by Women In Africa (WIA) to mark this year’s International Women’s Day said he was of the strong belief that ensuring women education and empowerment was necessary in Africa.
Osinbanjo said, “A child of a mother who can read is 50 per cent more likely to live past the age of five. Each additional school year increases a woman earning by 20 per cent, 2/3 less maternal deaths if mothers finish primary school.
“If we hold down half of the productive segment of our nation on account of culture or other frankly outdated considerations, we are much poorer and much more deprived as a whole. We do ourselves a favour by ensuring social and legal equality of women.”
“For many generations, women have fought these manifestations of gender inequality. Over time, the struggle has been refined to the level of a right to gender equality.
“The notion that women and men should have the same legal, social and political rights is the public law basis for feminism but something has changed in the past few years”.
Osinbajo disclosed that over 45 percent of the 500,000 beneficiaries of the N-Power graduate employment scheme were females.
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