Mrs Fayemi, Ezekwesili, Others To Grace Women National Dialogue 2019

First Lady of Ekiti State, Bisi Fayemi, former Vice President of the World Bank’s Africa Division and former Minister under Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, Obiageli Ezekwesili, Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, are among the 2,000 women expected at the National Women’s Dialogue 2019, with the theme: ‘The Nigeria We Want: Nigerian Women: A National Conversation’.
According to the Communications Chair of the dialogue, Mary Ikoku, the three-day dialogue is scheduled to hold at the National Centre for Women Development (NCWD), Abuja from November 27 to 29.
The conference, tagged ‘WOMANIFESTO ‘19’, aims to bring women together to dialogue and come up with a charter of demands on issues affecting women and children in the country.
The event will feature presentations and discussions in areas of health care, women participation in politics, business and other gender related issues such as the percentage of out of school girls, yearly marriage, maternal death rate, the effect of insurgency on women and children, among other concerns.
Delegates will be drawn from women groups, collectives, civil societies, entrepreneurs, professionals, social media influencers and women in the work force.
Other keynote speakers aside from Tallen, Fayemi and Ezekwesili, are Josephine Anenih, Founder, Women Foundation of Nigeria and Human Right Activist, Hauwa Shekau, among others.
Other notable personalities expected at the event include: Senator Abiodun Olujimi, Senator Betty Apiafi, Hon Nkiru Onyejeocha, Hajiya Saudatu Mahdi, a Women’s Right Advocate and the Secretary General of Women’s Rights Advancement and Protection Alternative (WRAPA), Dr Amina Salihu, MacArthur Foundation Nigeria Office.