THE increasing low participation of women in politics, especially in contesting for elective offices is beginning to give serious concern to women leaders and are now canvassing for strategies to tackle the deficit and ensure that women’s skills and intelligence are properly and equally harnessed for national development as it is with men.
A banker, who is also a former national publicity secretary of Association of Professional Women Bankers of Nigeria (APWBN), Mrs. Lola Banji-Alabi, is one of such women that have cried out over the continuous decline and the urgent need to halt it as well as raising the level.
Mrs Alabi in an interview with The Guardian, decried the capital intensive nature of politics in the country which in her view contributed in no small measure in limiting the number of women contesting for elective offices.
To read the full article published on December 16th 2014, please click here.
THE increasing low participation of women in politics, especially in contesting for elective offices is beginning to give serious concern to women leaders and are now canvassing for strategies to tackle the deficit and ensure that women’s skills and intelligence are properly and equally harnessed for national development as it is with men.
A banker, who is also a former national publicity secretary of Association of Professional Women Bankers of Nigeria (APWBN), Mrs. Lola Banji-Alabi, is one of such women that have cried out over the continuous decline and the urgent need to halt it as well as raising the level.
Mrs Alabi in an interview with The Guardian, decried the capital intensive nature of politics in the country which in her view contributed in no small measure in limiting the number of women contesting for elective offices.
To read the full article published on December 16th 2014, please click here.