Arewa women want Tallen appointed Women Affairs Minister

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By Lawani Mikairu

ABUJA—The Arewa Women Awareness Group, AWAG, yesterday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint Dame Paulien Tallen as the minister for Women Affairs.

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The Group which commended the President for appointing Dame Pauline Tallen as a minister and the Senate for confirming her said it is time the President compliments the good work by assigning Dame Tallen to the ministry of Women Affairs.

Making the appeal on behalf of AWAG  in a press statement, its national coordinator Murna Kande Bulama, said women in Nigeria stand to gain a lot by having Tallen as their minister representative. She said Tallen has been in the forefront of the agitation for the improvement in the plight of women in Nigeria and has been relentless in seeing to the betterment of rural women especially in the northern part of the country.

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Source: Vanguard Newspaper