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Pix: Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen
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The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Pauline Tallen, has urged on the need for stakeholder collaboration to overcome the numerous challenges of rural women, especially through promotion of gender equality and mobilization of resources to cater for their avalanche of needs.
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She made the call in Abuja, Friday, while engaging with rural women in Karshi community, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), as part of events to commemorate the International Women’s Month.
She said, “Inequality rate in the society has greatly impacted on the development and advancement of rural women, thus the need to bridge the gap through intense advocacies and sensitisations.
“I urge all stakeholders present to continue to collaborate with the Ministry to ensure that gender equality is achieved in Nigeria, especially in the area of creating synergy, strategies for mobilizing resources and establishing good partnership to overcoming challenges of rural women in Nigeria,’’
stressing the need for all stakeholders to carry out advocacies on the need for girl-child education, antenatal care and child immunisation as well as the effects of harmful traditional practices.
“We want to engage wives of our traditional rulers for our advocacy to talk to women to make sure the girl child education is properly addressed, female genital mutilation properly addressed and making sure they take their children for antenatal care.”
The minister also, advised women to ensure a peaceful and healthy society by inculcating sound moral instructions in their children, which will go a long way reflecting in the society.
Also speaking, Mrs Halima Mohammed, wife of the Chief of Karshi, assured the government that the council will sustain the advocacies on the importance of girl-child education, as it was fundamental in realising gender equality.
“We have been re-echoing what the minister said on the girl-child education. You cannot quantify it because once you educate a girl, your problems are lessened,” she said.
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