Association of Professional Women Engineers (APWEN) has said that, over the years, succeeded in creating different outreach programmes to increase the numerical strength of female engineers.
APWEN urged to improve women participation in STEM
To limit dependency on foreign engineering products and manpower, engineers have called on government to initiate policies that would revive technical and vocational education in the country.
They said that building the future should be non-negotiable and driven through the use of technical, vocational education as well as industrial partnerships for local content development.
To them, despite government’s successes and efforts in the past through technical and vocational education to reduce poverty, hunger and unemployment, the challenge persists due to insufficient funding, poor state of facilities, brain drain/search for greener pastures, poor staff training and retention mechanism, static and parallel curriculum of technical education and dis-integrated educational value system.
By Funmi Ogundare
The first female engineer in Nigeria and pioneer President Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), Mrs. Joana Olatunmbi Maduka is 80.
An Oak Jubilee Zoom party was organised by the association in her honour with family members, friends and colleagues in the engineering profession in attendance, to wish her well.
Some of the dignitaries that turned out to celebrate the woman who had impacted the field and done a lot in mainstreaming gender were; renowned industrialist and investment expert, Chief Mrs. Onikepo Akande, first female President of the Association of Consulting Engineering of Nigeria ( ACEN), Mrs. Mayen Adetiba, pioneer Vice-Chancellor, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State and Crescent University, Abeokuta, Prof. Fola Lasisi, President, Nigeria Society of Engineers, Babagana Mohammed, other founding members of APWEN, among others.
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