As Nigerian widows join others around the world to celebrate the international day for widows, the government at virtually all levels have remained insensitive to their plight.
This was observed when there was hardly any government presence when a Non-Governmental Organisation with the name, Rock of Ages Empowerment Foundation hosted widows to mark the day at the National Centre for Women Development in Abuja.
...
AllAfrica Subscription Content
You must be an allAfrica.com subscriber for full access to certain content.
You have selected an article from the AllAfrica archive, which requires a subscription. You can subscribe by visiting our subscription page. Or for more information about becoming a subscriber, you can read our subscription and contribution overview.
For information about our premium subscription services:
You can also freely access - without a subscription - hundreds of today's top Africa stories and thousands of recent news articles from our home page »
Already a subscriber? Sign in for full access to article