Transnational Corporation Plc, by means of its energy subsidiaries, Transcorp Power Plc, Ughelli, and Transafam Power Limited, Afam, hosted women from Transcorp Power School, Ughelli, and Transafam Power Schools, Afam, to advocate for funding in women’ rights because the world commemorates the 2026 International Day of the Girl Child. In line with this yr’s theme,
“End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls’ Rights”, the session linked women’ rights to training, confidence, ambition, management, and alternative. Around the world, about one in 5 women is married earlier than her 18th birthday. West and Central Africa is described as the worldwide centre of kid marriage, with practically 60 million girls and women in the area married as youngsters, and Nigeria accounts for the most important share. An earlier United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) estimate put the nation’s variety of baby brides at about 22 million. For every of those women, early marriage too usually means an finish to education, dangerous early being pregnant, and a future determined by others. Speaking in the course of the session, President/Group Chief Executive Officer of Transcorp Group,
Owen D. Omogiafo, OON, instructed the ladies that there isn’t any restrict to what they’ll obtain. Drawing on her personal journey, she shared that she was not born with a silver spoon however rose to guide one in every of Africa’s foremost enterprise teams by means of tenacity, focus and willpower. “You are not too young to have a voice, and you are not too young to have a dream. Nobody should decide your future for you. You have a right to choose your own path, so start painting the portrait of where you want to be in the future; and then work hard to get there.”
