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#BringBackOurGirls Statement

6 April 2022 Corpses don’t vote: #BringBackOurGirls backs Sheikh Nuru Khalid   Our movement read with consternation, the suspension of the Chief Imam of the Apo Legislators’ Quarters Central Mosque, Abuja, Sheikh Nuru Khalid. Abuja. Sheikh Khalid is a long-standing friend of our ChibokGirls, their parents and our movement and has on numerous occassions paired […]

JUDGEMENT DELIVERED IN FAVOUR OF NIGERIAN WOMEN

The Federal High Court Abuja, today 6 April 2022 has delivered judgement in favour of Nigerian women on the litigation process on Affirmative Action before Justice Donatus Okorowo. Nigerian Women were represented by a counsel of the Falana and Falana Chambers, Barrister Marshal Abubakar. Nigerian women have suffered marginalization in the Nigerian Political Space. As […]

EiE Nigeria Hosts Symposium To Commemorate 12th Anniversary

March 30,  2022 Lagos, Nigeria   ‘‘We must begin to imbibe a culture by which those who aspire to lead our people are subjected to a rigorous process of public debates that will assess their suitability on objective criteria, rather than the religion they practice or where they come from.’’ – Olusegun Adeniyi (Chairman, ThisDay […]

DEMOCRACY IN RETREAT: A PETITION BY EXCLUDED NIGERIAN WOMEN

Dateline: (Abuja) 9th March,2022   BEING A TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE DELIVERED AT THE NASS BY WOMEN GROUPS UNDER THE AGEIS OF WOMENIFESTO THE CONVENINING COALITION OF WOMEN GROUPS  FOR #WOMENOCCUPYNASS   #BreakThe PoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionalBias #BreakTheRepresentationImbalance #TheConstitutionNigerianWomenWant   Gentlemen and Ladies of the Press, Today, women comprised of your mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters […]

GENDER BILLS – WOMEN WILL CONTINUE TO OCCUPY NASS

Dateline: (Abuja) 6th March,2022   #BreakThePoliticalBias #BreakTheConstitutionBias   Nigeria has a woeful women representation in political and elective positions. At the National Assembly (comprising the Senate with 109 members and the House of Representatives with 360 members totaling 469 members of parliament), only 29 are women (six per cent of the total). There are, however, […]

Enough of the Harassment of SERAP and Other NGOs!

March 3, 2022   Last month, Mr. Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Culture, in his usual manner, made the unfounded and false statement that some Nigerian NGOs “are working to destabilise Nigeria” – and went on to attack NGOs that had exercised their constitutional right to challenge the Nigerian government in a court […]

WOMEN’S STATEMENT ON THE REJECTION OF GENDER BILLS BY NASS

Dateline: (Abuja) 1 March 2022   #BreakThePoliticalBias                #BreakTheConstitutionBias Nigeria women are disappointed and aggrieved at the actions of the 9th National Assembly (NASS) today Tuesday March 1, 2022 when they denied women the opportunity of inclusion and representation in governance by voting against the gender bills. The NASS has spoken loud and clear that they […]