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Nigeria: women on the outskirts of politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-12-19 08:44

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This year’s election in Nigeria saw some important gains in women’s political participation. President Goodluck Jonathon appointed 33% of cabinet positions to women (up from 10% in the last government), including the ministerial portfolios of finance and education. This is in keeping with Nigeria’s commitments to gender equality, encapsulated in the National Gender Policy, which sets the benchmark for women’s seats in Parliament at 35% - 5% higher than the international standard.

Yet this achievement is precisely so remarkable because of the ongoing challenges women in Nigeria face in becoming politically active from the bottom-up through elections. As the Summit of All Women Politicians in Nigeria have declared: ‘women of Nigeria have noticed with utter dismay the almost complete deterioration of our political and social values, born out of more than three decades of continued male-dominated and-oriented misrule, and have concluded that enough is enough; the time for positive change has arrived.’

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Read more on Open Democracy, published 19. December


IMO STATE GENDER AGENDA-SETTING INAUGURAL MEETING

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Submitted by johanele on Sun, 2011-07-03 02:25
2011-07-29 15:00
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City & Province/State: 
Owerri, Imo State
Country: 
Nigeria
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Owerri

Description: 

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 Imo State to chart a course for the effective mainstreaming of gender into all the programmes and activities of the IMHA.

The meeting is aimed at taking advantage of the new atmosphere of legitimacy and freedom thrown up in Imo State in the wake of the recent gubernatorial elections, to bring the issue of women and children in the state into greater visibility at the legislative and policy levels. It is important to note that women played major roles in the political struggle that brought Imo state to where it is at the moment. It is therefore important that this momentum and renewed consciousness is sustained to enable women to remain a major part of the emerging effort to entrench the democratic gains and expand the frontiers of democracy in Imo State and the entire South East Nigeria.

It is therefore the thinking of the coordinating organization, Development Dynamics, Nigeria (DD) that the engagement and agenda setting meeting is strategic and will be a good step in the effort to make women active players in the emerging process in the state. This initial meeting is intended to be followed by quarterly review meetings, as may be agreed to by all stakeholders at the initial meeting. The review meetings will receive updates, monitor progress and plan future activities.

We are depending solely on the support of partners for the hosting of the meeting.

The three female members of the IMHA have declared their full commitment to the realization of the Imo State Gender Agenda Process.

DD is therefore requesting to partner with you in the organization of this all important meeting. For further information you can contact Development Dynamics at; Phone: +2348035927419, Email: devdynamics@yahoo.com


Nigeria: Sarah Jibril Wants Jonathan to Include More Women in Cabinet

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-06-27 12:50

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PDP presidential aspirant in the April elections, Mrs Sarah Jibril, yesterday urged President Goodluck Jonathan to appoint more women in his cabinet.

Jibril, who made the call in Abuja, said the legislature at the state level had set the pace with the election of speakers and deputy speakers

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Challenges in upholding the rights of women and children in Nigeria

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-06-13 14:23
2011-07-14 14:00
2011-07-15 22:00
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City & Province/State: 
Lagos, Victoria Island
Country: 
Nigeria
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The conference is a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers, policymakers and practitioners to address the problems facing women and children in Nigeria. Organized by: THE NIGERIAN BAR ASSOCIATION (NBA), LAGOS BRANCH Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 7 June 2011

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Nigeria: Ministerial nomination- Will 35% affirmative for women work?

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-06-13 08:36

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As President Jonathan is about to submit list of ministerial appointees to the National Assembly for screening and confirmation, Nigerian women from different pressure groups and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) are working round the clock to ensure that they are not left out in the scheme of things

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Nigeria: Women, Their Gains, Their Pains

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2011-06-13 08:25

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Penultimate Sunday, Nigerians witnessed the inauguration of a new government and 12 year of inception of the fourth Republic. Throughout this period, the story of women in the political scene has been that of a struggle. Beginning from the colonial era, the discrimination of women has been a recurring thing in the nation's patriarchal political system.

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Nigeria: Women Empowerment Will Eradicate Corruption

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 18:47

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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. He said n Freetown that Sierra Leone was already practicing 30 per cent quota allocation to women in all leadership roles and in all sectors.

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Nigeria: Nigeria Elections Reflect Slow Progress For Women(AWID)

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-26 18:43

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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.

However, Toyin Ajao, a feminist blogger and Peace and Security Fellow of King’s College, London estimates that half or slightly over half of the 73.5 million registered voters were women. During the last parliamentary term, only 7.3% of the representatives in Nigeria’s upper and lower houses were women. In this year’s election, 200 out of 2400 (8.33%) candidates for the House of Representatives and 80 out of 720 (11.11%) candidates for the Senate were women.

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Nigeria: Give Women 35 Percent Appointments - Group Tells Jonathan

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2011-05-12 03:32

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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. The President while campaigning in his bid for presidency promised to accommodate 35 per cent women representation in his cabinet if elected.

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Nigeria: Ondo Commissioner Lauds Election of Three Female Legislators

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2011-05-06 03:23

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The emergence of three women as House of Assembly members-elect in the recently concluded Governorship/House of Assembly elections in Ondo State has been described as "good fortune" for the womenfolk.

Making the observation in Akure, the state capital, Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs. Kehinde Momoh, in her letter of congratulation to the new female lawmakers attributed the success to the encouragement and various support received from wife of the state governor, Mrs. Olukemi Mimiko, coupled with the sheer interest which Governor Olusegun Mimiko has for the female gender.

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