The National Coordinator of the Association of Nigerian Women Business Network (ANWBN), Modupe Temitope Oyekunle yesterday urged all women in leadership positions to support the young and upcoming.
She spoke during the 7TH annual summit of the association with the theme ‘Women Connect, Inspire! Influence!! Innovate!!’
The event which was held at Marcellinas Place, Ikeja, Lagos was in collaboration with the Partnership for Advancing Women in Economic Development (PAWED) and anchored by the development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC).
ANWBN is a coalition of 63 organizations that exists to enhance the economic status of women to ensure peaceful cohabitation, credible job creation and adequate infrastructural provision across Nigeria.
In her welcome address, Oyekunle said that ANWBN as a coalition has pursued and identified ways to make the business environment better over the years by exploring e-commerce and advocating for issues that border on women’s empowerment and inclusion.
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According to Oyekunle, this year’s summit aims to bring women together, deliberate on the issues that affect women concerning business and opportunities as well as build the capacity of women in governance.
“Women support one another, let the older women, the more inspired women, the more influential women pull other women up. The more you pull others up the more you also stay up. Women should embrace innovation, with the COVID-19 experience, we have learnt that there is always a different way of doing something to be able to get a different result. There should be more opportunities for women and let women be ready and build to take over.”
She added that the coalition is gearing towards a paradigm shift with other coalitions outside the country, an affirmative action on procurement where women can also position themselves to bid for contracts and government buying from women and how women in trade and agriculture can be strengthened in the area of insecurity and effects of the flood.