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Rank. 123rd out of 146. Women in Nigeria are a diverse group of individuals who have a wide range of experiences and backgrounds. [4] They are mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, entrepreneurs, professionals, and activists. Women in Nigeria face numerous challenges, including gender inequality, poverty, and a lack of access to education and ...
Nwuneli was born on March 22, 1975, at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu, Nigeria to a Nigerian professor of Pharmacology—Paul Obuekwe Okonkwo [3] and an American professor of History—Rina Okonkwo. [4] Her father, who is from Awka, Anambra and her mother who is originally from New York, met at Cornell University in 1965. [5]
Women in Nigeria (WIN) is a political interest organization founded in 1982. The organization's interest concerns women's liberation, equality and social justice in Nigeria . [1] WIN is different from early women's groups in Nigeria because it affirms the belief that women's rights cannot be secured without addressing the broader issue of human ...
Females in Nigeria have a basic human right to be educated, and this right has been recognized since the year 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) [1] According to a report in 2014, female education has an important impact on the development of a stable, prosperous and healthy nation state resulting in active, productive and empowered citizens. [2]
Najla Bouden is a Tunisian geoscientist and current Prime Minister of Tunisia. [6] She earned her Ph.D. in geological engineering from École des Mines de Paris. [6] The president named her prime minister, and she took office on October 11, 2021, becoming the first woman to be a prime minister in the Arab World.
Joy Ezeilo. Joy Ngozi Ezeilo is a Nigerian professor of public law, a senior advocate of Nigeria, an activist, [1] and a six-year United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking persons in Africa. [2][3][4] She is also a former Commissioner for Gender and Social Development, Enugu State. [5] She was a former Dean and HOD of faculty of law ...
GLO-1 is the first successful submarine cable from the United Kingdom to Nigeria, and GLO is the first individual African company to embark on such a project. [10] [11]GLO-1 has the potential to provide high speed internet services, faster, more reliable and cheaper telecom services. [12]
The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP) is a leading Regional Peacebuilding organisation founded in 1998 in response to civil wars that plagued West Africa in the 1990s. Over the years, WANEP has succeeded in establishing strong national networks in every Member State of ECOWAS with over 550 member organisations across West Africa.