A huge mobile clinic, bus-load of drugs, an ambulance, doctors of different specialities, more than 100 volunteers and members announced the presence of Women Arise at Queens’ College, QC, Yaba, last Friday in Lagos for a health outreach programme. At the end of the event, over 200 people ad been examined, treated and given drugs free-of-charge. The beneficiaries were mostly QC students as well as staff and residents in the neighbourhood.

Another election year, another round of politicking and another spate of issues- none of them to do with the reasons why the fairer sex remains the small players on the Nigerian political scene.

The West African Civil Society Forum (WACSOF) has decried the lackadaisical attitude of West African leaders towards the domestication of international legal and policy frameworks to guarantee right-based, pro-poor and good governance in the sub region.

As significant as they could be to the overall development of any society, issues of gender and women in particular have received very limited attention from political actors during electoral processes over the years.

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina has enjoined stakeholders to come up with a sustainable solution for peace and conflict management of the northern region and the country at large. Hajiya Maina made the call recently in Abuja at a one-day stakeholder’s workshop on the European Union funded programme on ‘Promoting women’s engagement in peace and security in Northern Nigeria’.