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The Africa Leadership Foundation (ALF) (also known as the Africa Leadership Forum) is a not-for-profit organization founded in Nigeria in 1988 by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. The primary focus of ALF is to help improve the current quality of leadership in Africa while at the same time helping to train the next generation of leaders for ...
The Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS works to cultivate a spirit of solidarity and the exchange of experiences among African first ladies and increase the capacity of First Ladies and other women leaders to advocate for effective solutions to respond to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic, and acts against stigma and ...
Nigerian women. Female empowerment in Nigeria is an economic process that involves empowering Nigerian women as a poverty reduction measure. [1] [2] Empowerment is the development of women in terms of politics, social and economic strength in nation development. It is also a way of reducing women's vulnerability and dependency in all spheres of ...
A Nigerian rights group has launched a petition to stop plans by religious leaders and a state lawmaker to push 100 girls and young women into marriage in a mass ceremony next week, which have ...
In 1987, a workshop on the role of rural women in development was held in Abuja and led to the establishment of Better Life Program for the Rural Woman. [7] Currently the organisation has recently developed a new strategy which will be implemented over the next five years to ensure rural women in Nigeria and Africa are supported and empowered. [8]
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 ...
NCWS goal of affecting national life through active participation of women has led the organization to support women's suffrage in Northern Nigeria during the First Republic. In the late 1950s, it started a voting rights campaign to allow women to vote and be voted for and visited regional leaders such as Ahmadu Bello to press on those ...
Women's sports organizations in Nigeria (3 C) Pages in category "Women's organizations based in Nigeria" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.