Lions Club International District 404B2 Nigeria, Thursday marked this year’s International Women’s Day with an elaborate celebration and lectures.
The event, which was held at the Business Club, Alausa, Ikeja, had the Lion women turning out in various exquisite designs of purple, green, and white Ankara, the official colors of the day.
Tracing the origin of the day to 1911 when the first edition was held in the then the Federal Republic of Germany, and 1975, when the United Nations officially adopted it, the District Governor, Are Lekan Owolabi, in his opening remarks, said the day has become a significant one, owing to the ‘superior’ role of women as ‘pillars of the world’.
“You are the pillars of the world. Yesterday, you were the issue; today, you remain the issue; tomorrow, you will continue to remain the issue. That is how God created you and that is why we cannot afford not to celebrate you at any time….”
Opening with the quote: “Equality is giving everyone a shoe, Equity is giving everyone a shoe that fits”, the convener and committee chairperson of the event, Lion Olutoyin Igbinoba, explained that the essence of the theme: ‘Embrace Equity’ is that the women simply “don’t want to be left behind, we want to be beside.”
Various speakers also delivered lectures, the high point being the lecture on ‘Eliminating Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer; Roles of NGOs’, delivered by CEO, of SACCOF Africa, Otunba Dr. Ademola Adesoye.