Okei-Odumakin gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria against the backdrop of the Senate approval of the use of e-voting and transmission.
Browsing: Women Arise for Change Initiative
Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise for Change Initiative, made the remark in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Lagos.
The Women Arise for Change Initiative on Wednesday announced the death of its Board Members, Abosede Ransome -Kuti, the widow of Dr Beko Ransome-Kuti.
President Muhammadu Buhari has been commended for signing into law the National Minimum Wage Bill approving N30,000 for the least paid worker in the country.
Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise for Change Initiative, on Saturday urged Nigerians and political actors to sustain the atmosphere of peace and orderliness in the face of the shift in dates of the general elections.
An NGO, Women Arise for Change Initiative, has called on governments to ensure more awareness programmes to end virginity testing of young females in Nigeria.
The Women Arise for Change Initiative, an election monitoring group has commended the large turnout of voters for Osun governorship election on Saturday.
Okei-Odumakin, President, Women Arise for Change Initiative, an NGO, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
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.
Odumakin also said the Senate was right in trying to make the Independent National Electoral Commission to announce the results of the 1993 presidential election and declare Abiola and Babagana Kingibe president and vice-president respectively
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.
The Corps Marshal, Boboye Oyeyemi, conferred the title Okei-Odumakin, the President of Women Arise for Change Initiative at the organization’s office in Omole Estate, Lagos
It will be recalled that the mobile policemen in the convoy of Abia State House of Assembly Speaker, Hon. Chikwendu Kalu, over the weekend shot officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps on duty in the State when they stopped an SUV in which the wife of the Speaker was traveling in because they were not putting on seat belts.
Soyinka, whose speech was read, was joined in the protest by Lagos lawyer, Festus Keyamo; the Convener of Women Arise for Change Initiative, Dr. Joe Okei-Odumakin; and the entire members of Women Arise for Change Initiative in the protest