Tag Archives: #WomenInPolitics

By Uche Okoli Eke Awka Trader My name is Uche Okoli (Mama Ifeoma). I trade onions at Eke Awka. In 2023, I didn’t vote. Not from apathy. From resignation. I assumed my single PVC was irrelevant. That the men in agbada had concluded Nigeria’s fate before dawn. That INEC was a closed family meeting. I was wrong. Anambra women bore …

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 …