By Innocent Anaba
The first female Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Folake Solanke, has expressed concern over government payment of ransom to criminals, who kidnap school students, noting that it was worsening security in schools across in the country.
Speaking on the occasion of the on-going International Women’s Day Conference organised by the Nigerian Bar Association, Women Forum, NBA-WF, she called on women lawyers to speak up against the kidnapping of schoolgirls, some of whom are still being held by their adductors, for over six years now.
This came as Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, President, Mr Olumide Akpata noted that “There has been considerable progress made in accelerating women’s equality. Regrettably, however, there remain those less talked about issues and unconscious biases which have historically contributed and continue to contribute to the suppression of the female folk.”
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Source: Vanguard Newspaper
