{"id":79921,"date":"2025-12-10T05:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79921"},"modified":"2025-12-10T05:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T05:46:13","slug":"fg-reaffirms-commitment-to-womens-empowerment-as-eodc-opens-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/10\/fg-reaffirms-commitment-to-womens-empowerment-as-eodc-opens-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Reaffirms Commitment to Women\u2019s Empowerment as EODC Opens in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has restated its commitment to women\u2019s empowerment, family strengthening, and support for vulnerable Nigerians as the Ene Obi Development Centre (EODC), was inaugurated Tuesday in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, described the centre as a transformative platform that will equip women and girls with skills and opportunities to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>She said the facility stands as \u201ca beacon of hope\u201d and reflects the power of education and resilience in driving positive change.<\/p>\n<p>She added that the Ministry remains open to partnerships to deepen impact.<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director of Centre LSD, Dr. Otive Igbuzor, urged the government to protect civic freedoms and fast-track the Reserved Seats Bill, while calling on civil society to remain vocal in defending citizens\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>Former Imo First Lady, Mrs. Ngozi Okorocha, and ActionAid Nigeria\u2019s Country Representative, Dr. Andrew Mamedu, praised EODC founder Mrs. Ene Obi for her dedication to women\u2019s advancement.<\/p>\n<p>Mamedu reaffirmed ActionAid\u2019s readiness to partner with the centre as it works to reduce poverty.<\/p>\n<p>In her remarks, Obi said the centre was created to break systemic barriers that limit women and youth, stressing that stronger collaboration from stakeholders is essential to achieving its mission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David The Federal Government has restated its commitment to women\u2019s empowerment, family strengthening, and support for vulnerable Nigerians as the Ene Obi Development Centre (EODC), was inaugurated Tuesday in Abuja. Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs. Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, described the centre as a transformative platform that will equip women and girls with skills and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79923,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79921\/revisions\/79923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}