President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Sunday 8 March, 2026, hailed Nigerian women on International Women’s Day, saying, they “help hold the nation together” through their “strength and determination”.
The President, taking to X said, Nigerian women are “citizens” who have always worked towards shaping Nigeria’s destiny with “resilience and dignity”.
The International Women’s Day is celebrated on 8 March yearly. It is a day when women, the United Nations (UN), and the world at large celebrate women for their achievements, as well as, their position as agents of change to move gender equality forward.
The theme for International Women’s Day 2026 ‘Rights. Justice. Action. FOR ALL Women and Girls’ emphasizes the urgent need to pull down barriers that hinder women and girls from having access to equal justice, as well as, highlights the significance of stronger legal systems that protect the rights of women.
According to the United Nations Human Rights (ohchr.org):
Women still enjoy only 64 percent of the legal rights of men worldwide. This includes all areas of life, such as business, family, mobility, money, property, safety, work and retirement. If progress continues at its current pace, it will take 286 years to close access to justice gaps for women and girls in legal protection, economic participation and bodily autonomy.
Structural and institutional barriers, including harmful social norms and discriminatory laws, have been the main obstacles to women’s and girls’ equal access to justice historically and today.
President Tinubu wrote: “Today, on International Women’s Day, I celebrate the women of Nigeria, at home and abroad.
“Across our homes, farms, markets, offices, and the halls of leadership, Nigerian women continue to demonstrate strength, courage, and determination that help hold our nation together.
“They are mothers who nurture, entrepreneurs who build, professionals who lead, and citizens who continue to shape the destiny of our country with resilience and dignity.”
The President said, the duty of the government is to make sure that conditions are created to help every Nigerian girl “learn” and “thrive economically”.
He believes “Nigeria rises when Nigerian women rise”.
President Tinubu further wrote: “Our duty as a government and as a society is to continue creating the conditions where every Nigerian girl can learn, every woman can thrive economically, and every voice can contribute to our national development.”
