REVEALED: 7 WOMEN WHO ARE MORE POWERFUL THAN PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN

BOLA SHAGAYA

FOLORUNSHO ALAKIJA

Gender equality, also known as sex equality, sexual equality or equality of the genders, implies that men and women should receive equal treatment, unless there is a sound biological reason for different treatment. This concept is key in the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, where the ultimate aim is to provide equality in law and equality in social situations, especially in democratic activities and securing equal pay for equal work. 

As a father, and a human being, there is nothing wrong with gender equality, is a way of moving along with system of every democratically settings, political terrains and administrations in a society that have values and respects for human beings.

Nigeria as a country have been clamoring for women empowerment, and yours sincerely is part of that agitation, my baby girl is a graduate of Economics with Second class upper, and I want her to compete with her mates in every sphere of opportunities. That is to say there is nothing wrong with in getting women empowered.

The government of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, shown that it is necessary to empower women and am happy about that, it is during  his administration that a woman, Itunu Hotonu ,a trained architect and an expert in Naval logistics became the first female to attain the rank of a Rear Admiral in the Nigerian Navy, one of Africa’s most sophisticated navies. And she is the second female carrier soldier after Major-General Ronke Kale, to reach the rank of 2-star General in West Africa. This type of achievement is not political but purely on merit.

However, when we are talking about political appointments and women who are more powerful than Jonathan, we don’t need to look far, those women who fall in this seemingly category of untouchable and powerful are : the First Lady, Mrs. Patience Jonathan; the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke; the Director-General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ms. Arunma Oteh; and the Minister of Aviation, Ms. Stella Oduah. Needless to say that these women occupy some of the most strategic and ‘lucrative’ positions in the Federal Government.

These women have proven to be more powerful than the number one citizen of Nigeria because despite public outcries that greet some of their decisions, they go scot-free. Most of the glaring cases of abuse of power including reckless spending of taxpayers’ money, embezzlements, and corruptions have been carried out by these women! Example of this is the controversial purchase of two bulletproof BMW cars by the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority allegedly for the Minister of Aviation, Ms Stella Oduah, at a whopping N255m, a clear case of abuse of office and reckless spending. 

In the list of most powerful women in Nigeria are Folorunsho Alakija and Bola Shagaya . Alakija is a Billionaire oil tycoon and the richest woman in the world. In May 1993, she got an allocation of oil prospecting licence (OPL) to explore 617,000-acre block granted to her company, Famfa Oil Limited.

While Bola Shagaya, is the CEO of Bolmus International Limited. Around 2005, she became the managing director of Practoil Limited and, in 2011, she founded another exploration company, Voyage Oil and Gas Limited. She has interests in several sectors ranging from oil and gas, banking, cash crops export, real estate, fast-moving consumer goods and photography.

Our women have also not done badly, they have only gone ahead to confirm the old saying..... What a man can do, a woman will do better. In term of accruing wealth, stealing, embezzlement, abuse of office and power, they all master the act more than men. What can I say than to welcome them board!