Do the internally displaced and abducted school girls celebrate International Women’s Day?

Published 06 Mar,2021 via The Nation - The international Women’s day is two days away. While it is not all gloom and sad news for the Nigerian woman given the recent global focus on the new Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Nigeria’s Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and some of the Nigerian women that made it into the cabinet of President Joe Biden, a lot needs to be done for the future of the Nigerian girl child.

The fight for the progress of any nation must be anchored on the vision the country has for its young ones. Education and health should be the two most important sectors of any economy that is looking to a better developed future. That is not implying that infrastructural development and other ancillary sectors do not matter.

However, as the global focus turns to the women and girls in this month of March, the women of Nigeria wish as always to draw attention to the things that matter; the poverty, the insecurity, the illiteracy, the child marriages and all those actions that impede the development of both the girl-child and women.