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Nigeria: Iwu Recommends Trust Fund for Women in Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-02-23 07:17
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Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Maurice Iwu has advised women to create a Trust Fund to help their quest for better participation in politics and governance in the country. Professor Iwu assured the women that the commission will do all within its power to ensure that they are given a level playing ground to contribute to the development of the country.

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Nigeria: Women need co-operation to do better in politics – Dukku

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2010-02-16 10:21
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Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu Jibril Dukku who holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from Bayero Universityia a professional educationist. "I believe gradually even for the elective posts that women are gradually coming up, we only need to showcase ourselves better. We also need to cooperate so that we justify the saying that whatever a man can do a woman can do even better. We need the support of the men, we need to be more confident and we need to show that we are better managers of anything be at an organization or in the private or public sector."

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Nigeria: Why Women Are Harmstrung in Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2010-01-22 08:42
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The former Deputy Governor of Lagos State Senator Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele has said the reason why women in Africa do not get equal chance as men in politics is that political parties are dominated by men. She said women have in the last 50 years failed to achieve equality with men because the African society still believes that a woman still lacks the financial capability to run political campaign and political parties are dominated by men. She said men are reluctant to back women for elective positions and that women have been brainwashed into supporting men rather than their own gender.

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Nigeria: Why Women Shun Politics, By Minister

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-01-18 14:15
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Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Salamatu Hussaini Suleiman has observed that violence in the nation’s body polity was responsible for limited number of women participation in politics in the country.
Making this observation during advocacy visits to Yobe and Borno States capital, she said the challenge of getting women to take 30 percent slot in both elective and appointive political office by 2011 at all tiers of government remains that of all Nigerians.

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Nigeria: Ministry Mobilises Women for 2011 Polls

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2009-11-16 10:43
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To encourage women participation in politics, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development will organise a National Political Summit ahead of the 2011 general election. Women Affairs Minister, Mrs Salamatu Hussaini Suleiman, said this in Akure, Ondo State capital.

According to her, women's numerical strength has not impacted positively on the political life and decision making structures of the nation due to unfavourable political environment.

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Consolidated Response on Best Practices Used by Political Parties to Promote Women in Politics

This consolidated response highlights strategies and policies that may be used in addition to gender quotas by political parties to increase the numbers of women in politics. The strategies described in this response include establishing women’s sections in political parties, providing women candidates with training and financial assistance to hold effective campaigns, creating a forum for women to lobby and discuss policy, and offering political parties incentives for promoting women in politics.

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Nigeria: Gender Response in HIV/Aids National Strategic Framework Reviewed

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2009-05-07 12:32
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In a bid to create an enabling environment for implementation and achievement of the National Strategic Framework (NSF) objectives and targets on HIV/AIDS; experts have begun a review to promote a gender equality and human rights sensitive policy environment in the Nigerian HIV/AIDS National Response.

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emyeyo

Submitted by emyeyo on Tue, 2009-04-28 04:50

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Africa Women's Political Leadership

This group is intended to continue and expand the dialogue begun at the Club of Madrid Africa Women Leaders Forum in Brussels October 7-8 2008

This group is open to all women who wish to discuss women's political participation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nigeria: State Commissioners Discuss CEDAW

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2008-09-11 09:28
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After the presentation of Nigeria's Sixth Country Report to the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women in New York, the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs in collaboration with the International Republican Institute IRI, a United States private implementing partner organised a two day sensitisation workshop on the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW).

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