Friday, 2 October 2015

millenium development goal versus men without women syndrome

The millennium development goals are eight international development goals, established in 2000 by the United states. These goals were aimed at being accomplished before 2015, 189 united nation members were part of the drafting of this goal, including Nigeria.
          The third goal was "promote gender equality" this is 2015, this is Nigeria, and my question is, did we really attain this goal?
        Daily times on  Friday,March 26th 2015, stated thus," the number of women elected to public offices in Nigeria may not increase significantly after this year's election. Analyses by premium times have shown that ,the representation of women seeking the office of governor and deputy governor stands at 87 out of 380 candidates (22.9 percent) while senatorial seat we have, 122 women out of 747 candidates (16 percent were cleared by inec to run for the post). In the house of Representatives, we had 267 women out of 1774 candidates(15 percent
   Amidst this, after the election it is clear fact that women still recorded more loosers than winners. Women must reinforce, 2019 is not far. Solidarity is the way forward.

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