A non-governmental organisation, Women in Successful Careers (WISCAR), has empowered over 2,000 women with employability skills.
The founder and chairperson of WISCAR, Amina Oyegbola, stated this during the 2024 WISCAR Annual Leadership and Mentoring Conference with the theme, “Fueling Resilience: Empowering Diversity for Economic Success” in Lagos.
She explained that the primary objective of the NGO includes widening the scope of women.
Oyegbola said, “WISCAR is meant to build a powerful network: forge valuable industry connections with professionals, social change agents and business leaders to propel your career and business forward. These impactful relationships have been a launch pad for the success of many professional women.”
The NGO is intensifying efforts towards inclusiveness of women in governance, and has various arms set aside for mentoring and mentorship.
Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said his government will not relent in creating and recreating facilities to ease and enhance the economic and social life of women in the state.
Sanwo-Olu who was represented by the state’s commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, Mrs Bolaji Dada, stressed that the state government was concerned about inclusion of women in the scheme of things because, “success of women is success of the society.
No society can build its economy without women.”
Also, the wife of Lagos State governor, Dr Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, who was represented by Mrs Oluwatoyin Suarau challenged Lagosians to tap into the many deployable skills acquisition and empowerment centres set up by the state government to make women financially viable in the society.
In her goodwill message, the national consultant on Private Sector Partnerships for the United Nations Women, Nigeria Country Office, Hansatu Adegbite, noted that about $10.8 trillion is lost annually due to the exclusion of women in governance as most of them drop their jobs in order to take care of other pressing domestic issues.
Adegbite called on the government to create a more conducive atmosphere like access to finance and others for women to contribute their quota to the development of the society.
