{"id":20428,"date":"2024-11-01T21:11:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T21:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20428"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T21:11:44","slug":"nilds-calls-for-urgent-action-as-female-representation-in-nigerias-national-assembly-falls-below-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20428","title":{"rendered":"NILDS Calls for Urgent Action as Female Representation in Nigeria\u2019s National Assembly Falls Below 10%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) has expressed deep concern over the low representation of women in Nigeria\u2019s National Assembly, currently standing at less than 10%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Titilayo Daniel, a representative of NILDS, highlighted this \u201cembarrassing\u201d figure during a town hall meeting in Sagamu, Ogun State, attended by over 100 grassroots female politicians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">At the event, Daniel pointed to the stark gender disparity in Nigeria\u2019s legislative body, emphasizing that women make up more than half of the country\u2019s population, yet their voices are largely missing in critical decision-making roles.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">She compared Nigeria\u2019s figure with that of Rwanda, where women represent 61.3% of the parliament, calling Nigeria\u2019s situation a significant shortfall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThis is an embarrassing statistic for a nation of Nigeria\u2019s size and status,\u201d Daniel remarked.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">She outlined structural barriers and discriminatory laws as ongoing challenges for Nigerian women seeking political involvement and urged immediate reforms to enhance female representation in governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">NILDS\u2019s call for greater inclusion comes amid renewed discussions on constitutional amendments to promote gender equity in politics, emphasizing the need for Nigeria to catch up with other African nations in ensuring balanced representation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies (NILDS) has expressed deep concern over the low representation of women in Nigeria\u2019s National Assembly, currently standing at less than 10%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9282,327,92,9281],"class_list":["post-20428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-female-representation","tag-national-assembly","tag-nigeria","tag-nilds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20430,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20428\/revisions\/20430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}