There is no country that can prosper if a quarter of its population is left behind. And the wellbeing of girls amounts to the wellbeing of the countr… - Josephine Obiajulu Odumakin

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There is no country that can prosper if a quarter of its population is left behind. And the wellbeing of girls amounts to the wellbeing of the country.

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About Josephine Obiajulu Odumakin

Dr. Josephine Obiajulu Okei-Odimakin is a Nigerian women's rights activist. She is the president of the human rights groups, Women Arise for Change Initiative and the Campaign for Democracy.

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Alternative Names: Josephine Obiajulu Okei-Odumakin Josephine Odumakin Joe Okei-Odumakin

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Women generally speak the same language – silence, and breaking this culture is what a few women have tried to do. A lot of women are not empowered and they allow themselves to be used by politicians as cheer leaders. They bring them to clap at political rallies.

It is so obvious that the Nigerian society is not committed to the wellbeing of the girl child going by the spate of sexual violence on girl children in recent time and the high level of abandonment and threat to the education and health of the girl child.

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