IWD: Akeredolu’s wife urges women to embrace ICT

Wife of the Ondo State, Mrs Betty Anyanwu-Akeredolu, has urged women and girls across the country to embrace technology in their careers to stand out and achieve more success and self development.

Mrs Akeredolu who stated this during grand finale of this year’s International Women’s Day (IWD) held at The Dome, Akure, the state capital, encouraged women to leverage on the ICT innovation hub and information centres across the county for digital literacy training of as many women and girls as possible.

Akeredolu said that this year’s IWD has been fruitful with the distribution of Solayo’s kits to indigent pregnant women across the state and said, it’s a way of supporting pregnant women in the State to ease the burden of getting delivery kits.

Speaking about her experience at the IWD’s event held at UNSCW67 New York, Mrs Akeredolu said that the connections and experience gained would help to attract more development to the State.

She stated that what stood out for her was presentations and dialogue from youths who represented different countries.

The First Lady who charged women to train the boy-child to be responsible noted that if boys are well trained, they will grow up to be good men and the world will be vices free.

The Ondo State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Social Development who doubles as the Chairperson of 2023 IWD, Dr. Adebunmi Osadahun, commended the state  government for its support for women in the state and described the event as memorable.

Osadahun explained that participating in UNCSW 67 in New York, USA, has helped to cover many miles with much smiles.

Speaking on the theme of the conference,  “Digit All: Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality” , she said the theme was borne out of many gender challenging issues which were inclusion of women and girls in Information Communication Technology (ICT).

She said finding solutions to indigenous women and their territorial battles, enlarging women entrepreneurs and financing initiatives using WE-FI(Women Entrepreneurship Financing Initiatives) approach targeted at e-commerce or digital marketing among others.

Osadahun, noted that the event was to wrap up IWD’s  celebrations and haven’t distributed Solayo kits across the 18 Local Government Areas of the State.

She appreciated the first lady for her support for women in the state and commended the first lady for her BEMORE programme which was acknowledged and celebrated at UNSCW 67 in New York.

The Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mr Tope Lebile, noted that Mrs Akeredolu has brought the state to limelight in the digital crusade through her BEMORE programme which he said was applauded in New York as the way to go.

He said the UNSCW67 in New York,  has affirmed that the world is digitally connected and urged women to go with the trend.

According to him some of the issues discussed at the programme included fighting barriers against gender equality, fighting for widows’ rights, compelling men to write their wills among others.

The programme was put together by the office of the Wife of Ondo state Governor,  in conjunction with the state Ministry of  Women Affairs and Social Development bringing all the

women across the 18 local government areas of the state  together to deliberate on how to better impact the lives of women in the State.

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