Barrister Siju Iluyomade is well known as a humanitarian who loves to drive woman-oriented programmes in a bid to give women a voice in a male-dominated society. With her Arise Women movement a programme set out to awaken the consciousness of not only women in the society but humanity as a whole and as well support the efforts of the government to cushion the effect of the current socio-economic situation in Nigeria.
In celebration of women, the 14th edition of the Arise Women conference is set to commence. This year’s event has already started with several sensitization programmes including the official unveiling of the 14th edition special T-Shirts with different designs as well as a revelation of the official theme of the season tagged ‘Appointed To Live’. The Convener, Dr Siju whose passion to continue impacting positively to the upliftment of the downtrodden made past editions of the event to be successful despite the financial constraint, is again poised to make sure all activities proposed for the 2022 season are achieved.
According to Iluyomade, this year’s main event will kick off with the Arise Golf Tournament on Friday, October 7 at the Lagos Ikoyi Club and it is expected to take off by 7 am.
Later in October, there will be skills acquisition programmes in different fields, including hairdressing, catering, computer training, and soap and cream making among others. The event will culminate with the Arise Women Conference.