Women in Politics

A controversy has erupted in Nigeria’s political scene after Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s passport seizure was by immigration officers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The Senator Akpoti-Uduaghan claims that her passport was taken without justification and alleges that Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the senate president ordered the action. According to Akpoti-Uduaghan, the move is part of a pattern …

By Tony Edike The suspended senator representing Kogi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has told her jubilant supporters in a video trending on social media, that she would resume her legislative activities in the red chamber on Tuesday this week. She expressed gratitude to her supporters following a favourable court judgment that reaffirmed her position in …

OWhen Nigeria’s third most powerful politician was accused of sexual harassment on national television this year, a fierce backlash ensued — against his accuser. Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, one of four women in Nigeria’s 109-seat Senate, was suspended for six months without pay in February. She said the suspension was punishment for speaking out against Godswill Akpabio, the president of the Nigerian …

A child born on June 4, 1996 will be no younger than 28 years, yet they live in a different world than those who came before them. It is difficult for most of the young persons who had organized themselves into a movement later known as ENDSARS circa September 2020, to imagine a world where they are leaders’ aka military dictators …

Recently, women have been struggling and demanding that a chance be given to them to lead.  This struggle has gingered many a woman to develop more interest in politics with the hope that one day the dream will come true. In Africa, realizing the dream is not an easy task. Over the years, some women have dared the rough road …