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Success or leadership is not limited to a particular gender.

— Olufunke Baruwa

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You don’t sit in the comfort of your home and complain that governance is excluding women.So we are encouraging young women to participate in governance.

Every party wants to put its best foot forward, and we are not sure that many are going to put women forward

"We need to change the way we bring up women; otherwise Nigeria will not grow; when you educate a woman, you educate a nation".

I believe African women are burdened by the weight of patriarchy, misinterpretation of religious tenets and a culture that has refused to grow beyond the Stone Age.

Sexual violence does not just happen, it is a learned behaviour, people repeat patterns when they find out that there is no deterrent for a particular behaviour.

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