Abia Govt, FIDA vow to end harmful practices against women, children 

Abia State Government has reiterated its determination to combat each harmful taste practices and gender-based unit against women and children successful families and communities crossed the state.

The state’s Commissioner for Women Affairs, Maureen Ahukwa, gave the assurance connected Thursday successful Umuahia portion addressing members of the Abia State subdivision of the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, during the 2026 FIDA Week.

Ahukwa, who said that gathering a conscionable and inclusive nine requires corporate action, praised the efforts of FIDA successful providing ineligible enactment for women and warring kid maltreatment crossed the country.

She called for sustained collaboration with the planetary women lawyers to guarantee that each pistillate and kid successful Abia lives successful a harmless and dignified environment.

Delivering a keynote speech, Professor Marvel Onwuka of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, lamented that the maltreatment of women successful families and assorted communities has negatively affected the world and societal behaviour of children.

She raised the alarm that immoderate students successful Nigerian universities are acrophobic to instrumentality to their parents’ homes earlier and aft graduation due to the fact that of unresolved conflicts betwixt their fathers and mother...