Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President of the NGO, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Lagos.
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President of the group, Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, who gave the commendation while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Ile-Ife, said the turnout of voters was impressive.
The Women Arise for Change Initiative, an election monitoring group has commended the large turnout of voters for Osun governorship election on Saturday.
In a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, the Executive Director, Women Arise for Change Initiative, Joe Okei-Odumakin, said the security agencies had so far displayed the highest level of professionalism in their coverage of the exercise.
Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise for Change Initiative, an NGO, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
The Movement Against Corruption, a coalition of civil society groups, on Thursday called on Nigerians to give the necessary support to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in its fight against corruption.
Dr Joe Okei-Odumakin, President of the group, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that women had the right to freedom of peaceful assembly.
Okei-Odumakin spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria against the backdrop of INEC’s extension of the CVR by two weeks.
Two observer group that monitored Saturday’s governorship election in Ekiti State, Women Arise and Millennium Foundation for Sustainable development, have hailed the conduct of the exercise.
Women Arise for Change Initiative is one of the 54 election observation groups accredited by the Independent National Electoral Commission to observe the Ekiti election on Saturday.
Okei-Odumakin in a press release stated that the spate of killings in the country in recent days by Fulani herdsmen has become worrisome and totally unsettling.
In a press statement on Saturday, she said the statistics of over 10,000 Nigerians who have lost their lives in 2017 to illegal migration through the Mediterranean Sea and Nigerians being auctioned for as low as $400 have become very worrisome
Okei-Odumakin said the rejection of the proposal in the bill for further amendment of the 1999 Constitution, amounted to rejection of women in policy and decision making process in the country.
Addressing the protesters, Okei-Odumakin called for comprehensive medical treatment of Godwin Ekpo, who was allegedly hit by a stray bullet fired by the Corporal at Ijegun, near Lagos
Various placards with inscriptions such as: Injustice to one is injustice to all; We demand responsible policing of Nigeria; Justice must be served on killer cop, Museliu Aremu, among others were displayed at the court premises
The activist wife of another popular activist, Yinka Odumakin, has been penciled down to speak on: Entertainment Industry and Nation Building
In an interview with NAN, Odumakin urged Nigerians to reject the resolution as it would be an opportunity for “social perverts to further mess up the lives of our young girls
The function will hold in the Dean Acheson Auditorium of the US Department of State.
One of the awardees is the President of the Campaign for Democracy in Nigeria, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin.