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Women Group Seeks Girl Child Empowerment

Some Nigerian women have, in a summit held in Oyo State, on Sunday, sought concrete ways of empowering the girl child in the face of … Continue reading Women Group Seeks Girl Child Empowerment


school girlsSome Nigerian women have, in a summit held in Oyo State, on Sunday, sought concrete ways of empowering the girl child in the face of the 21st century challenges.

Women from all walks of life across the country converged on Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, for deliberations that would create a better future for the girl child.

At the summit, organised by the wife of the Oyo State governor, Mrs Florence Ajimobi, participants emphasised that more efforts should be made to provide the girl child with needed support and environment that would make her thrive rather than leaving majority of them to the mercy of the society.

The Oyo State governor, Abiola Ajimobi,  in his address to the various women groups, mentors and leaders at the three-day summit pointed out that “a nation that does not empower its girl child has enough recipe for disaster and unimaginable under development and poverty”.

The women also made renewed call to the presidency and all security agencies in the country to find the missing schoolgirls abducted from their school dormitory in Chibok, Borno State in April by members of the Boko Haram sect , as they still have hope that they would be found.