The Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is set to collaborate with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to ensure that Nigerian women are included the financial system, by promoting financial inclusion through such initiatives as the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) and Agricultural Financing Scheme.
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Zainab Maina who spoke over the weekend in Abuja, while receiving the executive members of the Nigerian Quintessential Business Women and the Association of Non-Bank Micro-finance Institution of Nigeria in her office, noted that the economic well-being of women was urgently required to guarantee their full participation in governance and decision-making.
The Minister noted that the economic well-being of women was necessary to guarantee their full participation in governance and decision-making.
“My dream is to see that Nigerian women become economically and politically empowered and independent, to enable them to contribute more meaningfully to national development endeavours,” she said. “This is because the most important independence anybody can acquire is economic independence. Once you are economically empowered, the sky is your limit.”
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