✨ Happy New Year ✨ 🎉🎉🎉

It's a victorious day for women and girls across the continent! The 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the AU has just adopted the #AUEVAWGConvention, a first of its kind comprehensive continental instrument to address #VAWG in Africa.

My profound congratulations #Africa for this groundbreaking Convention to #EndEVAWG. This is a solid commitmen to rights of women and girls, embedded in the African human rights monitoring mechanisms. We now call for signing and ratification to enable this important

Rumours that LagosHouseOfAssembly Lady Speaker under pressure to resign due to zonal imbalance in the House. When Obasa was removed, no one paid attention to zoning because it wasn't important then! So upturn a democratic process? Bad Behavior LLC 🤨 Babajide Sanwo-Olu APC Nigeria

African Union Commission 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡, 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 🗳️Elected and Appointed. 𝐀𝐦𝐛. 𝐀𝐦𝐦𝐚 𝐓𝐰𝐮𝐦-𝐀𝐦𝐨𝐚𝐡 (Ghana, Western region) elected as Commissioner for  Health,

African Union Commission 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐈𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲. 🗳️Elected and Appointed. 𝐌𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐠𝐞 Lerato D. Mataboge (South Africa, Southern region) was elected as the Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy (I&E)

H.E. 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐟 was elected as the incoming Chairperson of the African Union Commission. He will be to be deputised by H.E. 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐦𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐝𝐝𝐚𝐝𝐢. Both mandates are for four years, renewable once. The two leaders were elected and

🚨 Let’s #AccelerateAction together Join us at the 2025 Conference of Commissioners of Women Affairs, hosted by Federal Ministry of Women Affairs Nigeria with the support of Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption, and funded by EU in Nigeria 🇪🇺🇳🇬, in celebration of #IWD2025! 📅 3-5 March 2025 | 📍 Transcorp Hilton, Abuja 🎯 Theme: Sub-national

😁🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 When we say Welcome to Women’s Month,…. We mean WELCOME TO WOMEN’S MONTH 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🥰😎🫶🏽We are showing up to #AccelerateAction #WomensMonth #IWD2025 #Beijing30 #CSW69 📸 Inspiring moments from our Women’s Month Reception over the weekend

😁🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 When we say Welcome to Women’s Month,…. We mean WELCOME TO WOMEN’S MONTH 💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾🥰😎🫶🏽We are showing up to #AccelerateAction #WomensMonth #IWD2025 #Beijing30 #CSW69 📸 Inspiring moments from our Women’s Month Reception over the weekend

🙌🏽 When we say Welcome to Women’s Month, We mean WELCOME TO WOMEN’S MONTH 💃🏾 We are showing up to #AccelerateAction #IWD2025 #Beijing30 #CSW69 📸: Amb. Sanna Selin of Finland in Nigeria with Founder, She Forum, Ms. Still Walking My Talk at our Women’s Month Reception, weekend, Abuja, 🇳🇬

Honored to receive the Forbes Woman Africa Lifetime Achievement Award. Many thanks to Forbes Africa for this great recognition at the Forbes Africa Leading Women’s Summit (I was sad not to be there in person). It’s wonderful that this is happening also during Women’s History

SAVE THE DATE 📢 Join us on the margins of #CSW69 for a celebration of the historic adoption of the #AUEVAWGConvention. Bringing together global leaders advancing #GEWE, the event will also provide a platform to strategize on accelerating the ratification of the Convention.

The odds against women may seem unrelenting, pervasive and continually evolving but we must equally remain undaunted in our efforts to #AccelerateAction against systems and processes that perpetuate inequities and injustice. Happy International Women’s Day 💪🏽💪🏽 #IWD2025 #CSW69

Happy #IWD2025 As we celebrate #IWD under the theme “For African Women and Girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment”, we push for accelerated efforts and action to end violence against women and girls on the continent. The 38th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State

🤯As of 2025, only 22.9% of Cabinet Ministers are women, a slight drop from 2024. This #WomenInDiplomacy Day, let’s renew our call for gender equality in political leadership. An inclusive future starts with equal representation. 👉Explore the latest data: unwomen.org/en/digital-lib…

On International Day of the Girl Child, She Forum Africa’s Inimfon Etuk urged governments to implement innovative policies protecting girls amid security crises. guardian.ng/guardian-woman…

🆘 Violence against displaced women and girls is a global catastrophe. See how crises are exposing women and girls to soaring gender-based violence risks and how UNFPA is responding to #ENDViolence: unf.pa/gbv

Digital violence is spreading at an alarming speed — and women are disproportionately affected. Yet nearly half of the world’s women & girls still lack legal protection from online abuse. More from UN Women: unwomen.org/en/news-storie…

#NoExcuses not to strengthen our legal systems for transparent accountability. Digital Violence is a crime, perpetrators must be held accountable for their CRIMES SURVIVORS DESERVE JUSTICE Let’s make the world & digital space SAFE #ForAllWomenAndGirls #ActToEndViolence #16Days