As Nigeria Army Officers Wife Association (NAOWA) in Birnin-Kebbi joins other women associations across the country to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day celebration, a call has gone to women to be disciplined and take care of their homes on behalf of their husbands who have laid down their lives in defence of Nigeria.
This call was made by Mrs Nafisat Abubakar Saki, founder/CEO of Zaki Gem Support Foundation, as a guest lecturer at the event put together by NAOWA to mark the day at the 1 Battalion Nigeria Army, Birnin-Kebbi, Kebbi State.
She urged officers’ wives to be entrepreneurs to be able to take care of their homes while their husbands are out there defending their fatherland.
The guest lecturer also told them that as army officers wives, they bear national identity, adding that women can turn the world around if they wish to do so.
Earlier in her speech, the chairperson of NAOWA, Kebbi State chapter, Mrs Fatima Muhammed Dole, stated that the occasion calls for women groups in Nigeria and the world over to come together to rally for women’s equality and empowerment.
“Through our efforts to empower our members, we engaged in fish farming, with currently two fish ponds, renovation of a structure to serve as a shopping complex in the barracks to be commissioned soon,” she stated.
She stated further that the association was able to get a donation of 10 hospital beds and some consumables to the 1 Battalion Medical Reception Station (MRS), pointing out that additional effort is ongoing to launch an enlightenment campaign against cervical cancer in the barracks.
Mrs Dole explained that NAOWA is a philanthropic association that strives for the welfare and well being of the less privileged in the society, particularly the aged persons, women and children.
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