The 2017 International women's day was celebrated around the world on March 8, 2017. It was a day to celebrate the achievement of women around the world and to call out to necessary stake holders to take action to overcome the entrenched prejudice, support engagement and promote gender equality and women empowerment in Nigeria as well as join the rest of the world to help forge a better working world, a more gender inclusive world. There was a huge advocacy call around the world to end gender discrimination in commemoration of the 2017 International Women's Day
In Nigeria, the House of Senate commemorates International Women's Day and resolved to call on government at all levels to give women a quota in all elective offices, and to mandate the committee on Women Affairs to look into the domestication of the Violence Against Persons Act in all states of the federation and report back to the senate.
The House of Representative accordingly resolved to support engagement and activism, promote gender equality and women empowerment in Nigeria and be bold for change to help forge a more gender inclusive world.
The importance of International Women's Day celebration therefore, cannot be over emphasized, it serves to promote gender parity. Hopefully, we would be having a better Nigeria, where more women are in the corridors of power, to facilitate and enhance the the rights of the Nigerian woman, review legislation, and promote all the laws that favors the women and end gender discrimination.
