Babalola, Oyebanji demand greater representation of women in governance, politics
Nigeria, March 14 -- The founder of the Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Afe Babalola (SAN), on Thursday, demanded the inclusion of 40 per cent representation of women in state Houses of Assembly, the National Assembly and in government, in the constitution being amended by federal legislators.
Mr Babalola, who stated this at the 2024 International Women's Day Lecture organised by Law Students' Society of ABUAD in honour of his late mother, Abigail Babalola, charged women to come together, and take advantage of their numerical advantage and participate more in politics.
He noted that God did not create women to be inferior to men.
"Look at what happened in our university here. In some courses, women are more than men. When y...
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