As Nigeria tries again to begin its staggered general elections on April 9, spare a thought for the women who will be putting themselves forward as candidates in an overwhelmingly male field.
Wife of the Abia State governor, Mrs. Odochi Mercy Orji, has described the victory of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in the last National Assembly poll as a signal that women are now ready to take their rightful positions in the scheme of things.
Interest groups on gender equity have called on the President-elect Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to ensure gender balance in the formation of the new government in keeping with his promise to give women 35 per cent of the appointments if re-elected.
From April 9-26, 2011, Nigeria held parliamentary, presidential and governorship elections. Unfortunately the Independent National Election Commission, the body that oversees the country’s public office elections, did not issue any data about the number of women registered to vote.
A senior official in the Ministry of Health and sanitation in Sierra leone Mr Saliu Deen, has contended that women empowerment remained a panacea for eradicating corruption.
Since 2008, when the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) began working on gender and security sector transformation in West Africa, we have repeatedly been asked for information on gender and security from other countries in the region, such as examples of good pra
Since 2008, when the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) began working on gender and security sector transformation in West Africa, we have repeatedly been asked for information on gender and security from other countries in the region, such as examples of good pra
It is an engagement and agenda-setting meeting between the three female members and other gender-sensitive male members of the Imo State House of Assembly (IMHA) and representatives of the women of
The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers, policymakers and practitioners to address the problems facing women and children in Nigeria.
The Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWiP) initiative is part of a larger Africa regional project by UN Women which aims at stimulating evidence-based, systematic and institutionalized response mechanisms to the issue of electoral violence against women.
The Violence Against Women in Politics (VAWiP) initiative is part of a larger Africa regional project by UN Women which aims at stimulating evidence-based, systematic and institutionalized response mechanisms to the issue of electoral violence against women.