Ladies sing and dance during the International Ladies’s Day celebration on the Mobolaji Johnson Stadium in Lagos, Nigeria, Friday, March. 7, 2025. (AP Photograph/Sunday Alamba)
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Hundreds of girls in Nigeria marked International Ladies’s Day in Lagos on Friday with a delighted celebration. Many ladies gathered wearing pink clothing as they danced and carried banners commemorating girls’s achievements.
The marketing campaign theme for this year, “Stir Action,” aligns with the thirtieth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a landmark world framework for girls’s rights.
In addition to celebrating, the match additionally introduced about some reflection. Social employee Fabayo Temiloluwa acknowledged the day reminds her that by come of politics in Nigeria, “society tends to shut down girls, reduces their voices. So, girls must be extra intentional, bag extra informed, be extra active in politics.”
The United Nations recognised International Ladies’s Day in 1977, but the occasion has its roots in Labour actions of the early Twentieth century.
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