Category: Uhuru Watch

This online behaviour seeks to achieve political outcomes: targeting individual women to harm them or drive them out of public life while also sending a message that women, in general, should not be involved in politics.

For Anambra State, these are the six women running for senatorial positions in Anambra Central and Anambra North senatorial districts.

She is the second female governorship candidate to be elected by the APC in the NorthEast region since 2015. The first was the late Aisha Alhassan in Taraba state.

Decision makers at all levels must institutionalise the meaningful and safe participation of women and their groups through  the adoption of fully resourced and accountable policies, strategies and frameworks.

Ahead of the elections in 2023, Document Women is spotlighting the women running for political offices across the country.

Zingiswa Losi, the current president of South Africa’s trade union – Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), is set to run for reelection during the organisation’s 14th national congress, which will be held this week.

Her campaign,  the #BetterLIFE4EsanCentral agenda is based on the need for Esan Central LGA to have purposeful leadership to salvage the state of underdevelopment.

“Women must be resilient and never give up on their dreams, the ticket does not belong to me, it is yours, it belongs to the people who have only given it to me to hold in trust for them.”

Currently, she is the team lead (North Central) for the Women Chamber of Commerce, Agriculture, Mines and Industry, Nigeria.

Idongesit Micah Eno is  running for a seat in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly representing Ibesikpo Asutan local government area.