100,000 Ogun women empowered to fight poverty, strengthen families – Abiodun 

Ogun State Governor Prince Dapo Abiodun has disclosed that astir 100,000 women crossed the authorities person benefited from the World Bank-supported Nigeria for Women Programme (NFWP), describing women’s economical empowerment arsenic a strategical instrumentality for warring poorness and strengthening families and communities.

Abiodun made the disclosure on Monday when helium received the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Ms. Amina Mohammed, who joined him successful interacting with beneficiaries of the programme astatine the Governor’s Office, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta.

The politician said his medication deliberately embraced and took ownership of the programme due to the fact that it provided an accidental to scope women astatine the grassroots who mightiness different stay extracurricular accepted structures of governmental and economical empowerment.

According to him, empowering women should spell beyond appointing them to governmental offices to providing them with the resources, skills and opportunities required to physique sustainable livelihoods, enactment their families and unrecorded with dignity.

“When the World Bank shared with america the Nigeria for Women Project, we did not lone cardinal into it; we took own...