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Published 13 March 2021
Experts have called on the federal and state governments to accord more legal, political and financial rights to Nigerian women as critical players in the national development.
Speaking at an event organised by the Nigerian Association of Small and Medium Enterprises (Women’s Wing) to mark International Women’s Day in Lagos on Friday, they urged women to challenge the barriers to socioeconomic and political growth.
In a lecture titled, ‘Women, Family Law and Property Rights,’ a chartered arbitrator, Dr Adeyemi Agbelusi, said despite the right to freedom from discrimination and the right to own property enshrined in Sections 42 and 43, respectively, of the 1999 Constitution, property right was an area many women were worried about.