A member of Nigeria’s House of Representatives, Rotimi Agunsoye at the weekend called for an end to gender inequality and advocated the encouragement of economic freedom for Nigerian women.
“My message is simple, we need a 21st Century mentality for women’s economic emancipation, we need to flush out the negative gender inequality and give women economic freedom”, the lawmaker representing Kosofe Local Government of Lagos State has said.
Mr. Agunsoye made this call at the empowerment programmed he organised for fifty women that would be trained in various skills and vocations including: hairdressing, fashion designing, soap/cream/bead making, wire works by officials from the National Directorate of Employment (NDE).
The lawmaker said, the empowerment programme was designed mainly for women due to the need for them to bridge the gap existing between men and women in skill acquisition and economic freedom.
He noted that lack of good education through skills acquisition had created a disadvantage, adding that, however, the programme been offered like others in such category would help women attain economic freedom.
