Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), will on Saturday present to
the Public the Aspire Women Network project during the 2020 Happy Conference.
In a signed statement by the head of media NIDCOM Abdur-Rahman,the confrence is an assembly for women of all ages to share experiences with one another, to finding happiness while fulfilling their purpose in life, as
women.
Dabiri-Erewa stressed that the women folks are clamouring for equitable opportunity to complement their male counterparts in all helms of affairs, especially in politics.
The Chairman of NiDCOM added that women are by nature multi-tasking,
with the mandate of building, uniting the home, the society and by
extension, the nation as a whole.
In the words of G.D. Anderson: “Feminism isn’t about making women
stronger. Women are already strong. It’s about changing the way the
world perceives that strength”.she added
Therefore, in what will go down as a historic intergenerational
conference for women, the Aspire Women Forum (AWF), an NGO is hosting
the “Happy Conference 2020” with the theme, “A Woman: My Purpose”.
At a news conference in Abuja, the President of the NGO, Barr. Zainab
Buba Marwa, stated that the AWF’s Happy Conference 2020 is designed for women to find both happiness and purpose-fulfilment in their chosen endeavours.
She said that research had shown that there is a “deep surge of suicide,
murder, despondency, hopelessness and drug abuse among women.
According to the AWF President, one in four drug abusers in Nigeria is a
woman, coupled with the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic lockdownexposed
the alarming numbers of domestic and gender-based violence, especially
against women.
The Happy Conference 2020 is created to foster dialogue among women of all ages as encouraged by the Beijing Platform for Action, ‘where the older generation will share their financial, emotional and spiritual
(FES) regimen and their experiences in discovering their purpose, with
the younger participants’.
While the younger participants on the other hand, who have excelled in
various fields will share stories, that will inspire other participants.
The Aspire Women Forum (AWF) is a non-profit, non-religious,
non-partisan organisation based in Nigeria, with the vision to be the
foremost forum for igniting gender equity by advocating and engaging in areas of Motivational Behavioural Coaching (MBC), and inclusivepolitics advocacy through knowledge impartation and financial inclusion, which in
the words of the NGO’s Founder, “aforum of women, for women, by
women”.
Expected guests and keynote speakers at the event include the First
Lady, Dr. (Mrs) Aisha Muhammadu Buhari; Dame Pauline Tallen, Minister of Women Affairs; Chief (Mrs) Moji Makanjuola, veteran broadcaster and ED, International Society of Media in Public Health; Maimuna Abubakar,
Founder, Tozaki TV/Magazine and the Chairman of NiPOST; and Ene Obi, Action Aid Representative.
The theme of the conference is “ A Woman: My Purpose”.
