Women Affairs Minister, Tallen, Honours Maryam Babangida with Posthumous Award For her enviable contributions to the development of the African rural women, the late matriarch of the General Ibrahim Babangida (rtd) family and fou
For her enviable contributions to the development of the African rural women, the late matriarch of the General Ibrahim Babangida family and founder of Better Life Programme for African Rural Women, Dr. Maryam Babangida, has been presented with a posthumous award by the Minister of Women Affairs, Dame Pauline Tallen, at the weekend in Abuja.
According to her, “It gives me great joy to assemble all of you here today for the commemoration of the 2022 international day of the rural women with the theme: ‘Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All’. “All of us here today are rural women-we all came from the village. I’m a rural woman. I happen to be a councilor by the grace of our late mother in 1986. If I am to give my success story, the background and the foundation, I will give honour to our late mother. I’m one of those she groomed and mentored from councilorship, and today I am a minister. Why should we not remember this great woman?
She said her organisation had direct impact on the lives of the African women who are not just vulnerable but greatly marginalised. Babangida said she strived to reduce child mortality, ensured food security, and improved maternal health and integrate rural women into national development.