Nigeria women constitute over 50 per cent of the population and are engaged in productive sectors. They are engaged in various trades including farming.
Nigerian women also constitute 47.14 per cent of the country’s voting population.
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Sadly, in Nigeria women are almost still locked out of governance. The percentage of women in governance is still abysmally low.
The recent protest by Nigerian women at the National Assembly is an indication that Nigerian woman has the ability to fight for her right like other women around the globe.
Nigerian women should learn from the words of senators Grace Bent and Nkechi Nwaogu who said: “The hen is crowing now and the cock must know the arena is no longer a place for it alone’’.
My advice to the National Assembly is that it should reverse its rejection of the four bills that seek to enhance the rights of women in the political arena.
Women are fixers and it is only women that can fix this country.
Bello Shehu Shuni [email protected]
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