Nigeria, Dec. 10 -- The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, has said the proposed reserved seats for women in Nigeria's legislatures amounts to a "weak negotiation" that fails to match the scale of women's political contributions in the country.

Mrs Sulaiman-Ibrahim said this on Tuesday at the Beijing+30 Women's Summit in Abuja, convened by the Amandla Institute for Policy and Leadership Advancement (AIPLA), in collaboration with the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN-Nigeria) and Womanifesto.

The reserved seats bill seeks to create special legislative seats for women in both the national and state assemblies.

It proposes 37 additional seats for women in the House of Representatives, one for each ...