International women’s Day: Faduyile calls for more role for women.
By Steve Ovirih.
Nigerian Medical Administrator and Professor of Forensic Medicine , Prof. Dayo Faduyile, OON, has congratulated Nigerian women on the occasion of the 2025 International Women’s Day.
United Nations set aside March 8 annually to celebrate women across the globe.
The former National President, Nigeria Medical Association , NMA noted in his congratulatory statement to Nigerian women that the time is ripe to rev up the 35 percent affirmative action which targets more women for active participation in the matter of Governance in the society, stressing that the Nigerian society has evolved beyond reducing women’s role solely to the home for house keeping and child bearing.
He said the gender biased opinion held that “it is men’s world’ is a sentiment that has over the years discouraged women in our society from standing up to embrace leadership responsibility, adding that the 21st century and modernist temper across the globe and Nigeria not excluded is to give our women their right of place in the scheme of things.
Prof. Faduyile therefore charged women in politics not to be comfortable with just being cheer leaders at campaign grounds as more responsibilities are opened to them to further make impacts that will make their gender equal opportunity partner for national development.
He noted that the world awaits our women to pick up the gauntlet and drive monumental agenda across discipline , indicating that our society always makes way for women of repute , instinct and candour who dare to shine positively with their God given talent.
Citing example, Prof. Faduyile said Chimamanda Adichie dared to be different with her writing skills and today she has become a Nigerian female writer of repute and glow on the international stage whose strides bring praise and not shame to her Nigerianess, stressing that before Chimamanda Adichie on the Nigerian literary scene was Mama Mabel Segun, who passed away on March 6th, 2025.
The erudite scholar and former Special Adviser on Health to Ondo State Governor noted that Funmilayo Ransom Kuti, Prof. Grace Alele Williams , Nigerian first female Professor of Mathematics and first female Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bolanle Awe, foremost female educationist and Commissioner of Education in the old Oyo State under Late Chief Bola Ige, Prof. Okonjo Iweala, Dr. Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, Late Prof. Dora Akunyili, Chioma Ajunwa, Asisat Osuala, Aisha Oyebode, Hafsat Costello Abiola and many others had in different respect set themselves apart among their peers and recorded exploits that have become unique imprint in the sand of time, calling on Nigerian women to take a cue from these outstanding women and make commendable inputs that will put their contribution in glowing prism of history.
He said Nigerian women are unique as wives and mothers and deserve celebration not just on a single day of the year .
Prof. Faduyile also called on parents to give the girl – child adequate education so that they will not be considered as inferior , adding that education plays a strong role in the bid to make our women to compete with confidence in the society.
