By Olayinka Latona

DEPUTY Senior Pastor, Daystar Christian Cen-tre, Pastor Nike Adeyemi has challenged Nigerian women to take their need-ed positions in the nation’s governance as nation building can never be do-ne without their involve-ment.

Rising from Daystar’s annual women of destiny conference in Lagos, the convener, Pastor Nike Adeyemi who is also the deputy senior pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, said the positions of wo-men in nation building is critical and cannot be ignored.

In her words: “Our government at all levels must be deliberate in choosing qualified and willing to serve women to reposition this country in the right dir-ections. We have played too much with the issues of women in our country and it is time we turned the tide around for good.”

According to her, every woman is per-fectly made of God with enough poten-tial to lead anywhere and everywhere. She believes women should not be rele-gated to the kitchen alone, urging women across Africa to rise up to the challenge and make Africa proud.

On whether women should join politics, Adeyemi said women should not be limited by anything but seek to shine their lights in leading other women to prosperity.

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“Gone are days when women are limit-ed by any circumstance. This conference, with the theme: ‘Light’, is to encourage, challenge and push women from their pains to purpose,” she stated.

Speaking on the theme, one of the guest ministers, Pastor Kimberly Jones-Pothier-from Church of the Harvest in Fayette-ville, Georgia, USA believes every woman should allow her light to shine even more in the midst of seeming darkness on the continent.

“As a woman and a child of God, just as our heavenly father is a light so should we be. In our closet, offices, market place, God expects us to shine our light for the world to know and appreciate Him.  Therefore, there should not be any hindrance to your light shining in solv-ing the loveless world issues,” she stress-ed.

In her message, Pastor Toyin Poju Oye-made from Covenant Christian Centre, Lagos opined that every woman should look inward and see where she can be light to herself and others. “Our country will be better if all of us can determine to be the light in our society,” she said.