Ten men are competing for Zimbabwe’s top job after two female candidates failed to raise enough funds to file their nominations.
Ten men are competing for Zimbabwe’s top job after two female candidates failed to raise enough funds to file their nominations.
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While women make up 49% of Nigeria’s population, their representation in politics and governance doesn’t quite match.
A group under the auspices of Progressive Ambassador for APC project, has calls on President Bola Tinubu to consider women and youths in his cabinet.
Female participation in the politics and governance of Nigeria has been way down below average since the country’s transition to representative democracy in 1999.
Once they won the right to vote, some women’s suffrage activists in the United States moved on to focus on how to direct this new electoral power.
At the opening ceremony, Madi Jobarteh, country director of Westminster Foundation for Democracy, extended hearty congratulation to all the mayors, chairpersons and councilors on their election.
Acting Speaker Sindh Assembly and Pattern in Chief Women Parliamentary Caucus Sindh Rehana Laghari, on Wednesday, stressed on need of reforms in the election laws to strengthen role of women in politics.
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