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By Perpetua Onuegbu
Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) says women empowerment is a veritable and powerful tool for nation building globally.
The APWEN president, Mrs Elizabeth Eterigho said this on Saturday in Abuja at the Nkechi Isigwe Annual Lecture tagged "Diversity and inclusion in the Nigerian extractive industry:An entrepreneur's perspective".
Eterigho said women empowerment was an integral part and a powerful tool of a nation's building and sustainability that could sustain the economic growth and development of any nation.
"Empowering women promote their self worth and confidence and enable them to make their choices, seek their own arena, get relevant skills and encourage their rights to influence social changes for themselves and others.
"When a woman is adequately empowered and able to gain access to good education; lively hood, security and political participation, they feel more secured and empowered to contribute to social and economic development.
"It is in view of this that Nkechi Isigwe lecture is empowering women, precisely widows,." Eterigho said.
She said three widows from Umahia in Abia shall be beneficiaries of the scheme. According to her this initiative will enhance widows ability in training their children in schools thereby living a better life," he stated.
She called on all well meaning Nigerians and corporate organisations who appreciate the empowerment of women particularly widows to join hands with APWEN to sustain the initiative to help to sustain the initiative.
Earlier, the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (NIETI) Mr Orji Ogbonnaya noted that the theme of the annual lecture; "Diversity and Inclusion in the Nigerian Extractive Industry: An Entrepreneur's perspective" cannot come at a better time.
When government's attention is more on revenue generation and resource mobilization and when the country desperately needs revenue from the extractive sector to meet her social obligations to the citizens.
Orji said that NEITI had initiated aggressive programs to pay special attention to generating reliable data and subsequent engagement to improve women's participation in the mining sector.
"Our goal is to address the huge gap in gender imbalance in employment, investments, and decision-making in organizations in the extractive sector through empirical evidence based on data and constructive engagements.
"Our goal remains to work with you to remove structural barriers that impede women, girls, and other vulnerable groups from participating in sustainable natural resource management and other potential gender impacts of extractive activities.
"On this note, may I use this opportunity to commend every woman in this hall for rising against all odds and excelling in your various chosen career especially in the field of engineering.
"I wish to restate that we need to do more to expand opportunities for women in the extractive sector. NEITI is ready to offer any support and partnership to help our women realise their full potential in the sector.
"We call on APWEN to lead this conversation as professionals and provide the needed guidance and expertise in this area," he said.
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UI graduates now accepted at NYSC Orientation Camps- official
The management of the University of Ibadan (UI) says it has taken action to resolve the challenges its graduates are facing with registration at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) orientation camps.
In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Saturday, Mrs Joke Akinpelu, the Principal Assistant Registrar, Public Communications, UI, said that graduates of the institution were now being registered in camp.
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“UI is already doing what the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) requires of it and the prospective corps members from the institution are now being accepted in camp,” Akinpelu said.
NAN recalled that some few days ago, graduates of some universities including UI and University of Nigeria, Nsukka, (UNN) who reported to the NYSC orientation camps across the country were not registered by officials.
The prospective corps members were disallowed from registering in camp because their institutions; failed to comply with the NYSC format prescribed for their list to be sent to it, according to reports.
Some prospective corps members, who had reported to camp as early as Nov. 2, to begin the Batch C Orientation programme, recounted their harrowing experience including being denied food tickets to feed at the dining halls in camp.
A circular dated Nov. 7, 2022 and signed by the Director, Corps Mobilisation, Isa Walida Siddique, titled, ‘Prospective Corps Members With Incomplete Data For Camp Registration,’ stated that all institutions had been duly notified of the requirements acceptable by the NYSC.
‘‘However, it is unfortunate that a few Corps Producing Institutions (CPIs) are yet to comply with the resolution, thereby making the registration of Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) very problematic.
“It goes without saying that lack of harmonisation of data both on the portal and on hardcopies can alter the mobilisation status of PCMs, hence the zero tolerance of the Management towards the few CPIs that still indulge in it.
"In view of the foregoing, you are kindly requested to advise all PCMs awaiting registration to go back to their institutions to rectify their respective challenges,’’ the circular partly read.
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