Breaking barriers: Women in Nigeria defy odds to contest in elections, but face uphill battle

In the current lower house, 13 of the 360 members of parliament are women, placing Nigeria 184th out of 190 countries in the world, according to a ranking by the Geneva-based Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). And the situation does not seem to be improving.

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