{"id":3239,"date":"2023-05-18T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2023-05-18T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T11:12:45","slug":"worrying-numbers-for-women-in-10th-nass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/worrying-numbers-for-women-in-10th-nass\/","title":{"rendered":"Worrying Numbers for Women in 10th NASS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 2023 general elections again, delivered low numbers for women in the National Assembly. The representation of women in the incoming Assembly is not a significant improvement from the outgoing 9<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly. The 10<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly will have women occupying 3 out of 109 seats (2.7%) in the Senate and 17 out of 360 seats in the House of Representatives (4.7%), which represents 4.2% of\u00a0 the 469-member Assembly. In the 9<sup>th<\/sup> National Assembly, there were 8 female Senators (7.3%) and 13 female Members of the House of Representatives (3.6%), which represents 4.5% of the entire Assembly. After seven general election cycles since 1999, the number of women in the Senate has dropped to what it was at Nigeria\u2019s return to democracy in 1999. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With current\nfigures for the 10<sup>th<\/sup> National Assembly, Nigeria remains at the bottom\nof the list in the ranking for the number of women in&nbsp; African Parliaments. The Inter-Parliamentary\nUnion (IPC), which usually provides this information is yet to update its data\non Nigeria due to the recent general elections. However, as of April 2023, the\nlowest ranking countries have 8.62% of women in unicameral or lower chambers of\nParliament and 6.67% in upper chambers of Parlaiment, respectively. The cumulative\npercentage of women in the two chambers of Nigeria\u2019s incoming 10<sup>th<\/sup> National\nAssembly is below 5%. It is also important to note that no woman was elected in\n15 out of Nigeria\u2019s 36 State Houses of Assembly following the State level\ngeneral elections in March 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversations\nto improve women\u2019s political representation have been on the front burner of\ncivil society advocacy but does not appear to have yielded tangible results. A\nnovel Constitution Alteration bill to provide specific legislative seats for\nwomen at Federal and State levels did not pass in the National Assembly. However,\ncivil society organisations (CSOs) and women\u2019s rights campaigners are braced\nfor renewed campaign on the matter. The groups argue that this time, the\nNational Assembly must take action to support increase in the number of women\nrepresented in government by passing specific Constitution Alteration bills to\nachieve this. It is to be noted that the Temporary Special Measures bill which\nwas debated but failed to pass in the 9<sup>th<\/sup> Assembly had Hon. Nkeiruka\nOnyejeocha as lead sponsor and more than 80 other House of Representatives\nMembers co-sponsoring it. Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) had prepared\nthe bill and is looking forward to continuing work on the bill in concert and\nconsultation with other CSOs and women groups as the 10<sup>th<\/sup> National\nAssembly gets inaugurated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Percentage-of-Women-in-Unicameral-or-Lower-Chambers-of-African-Parliament.pdf\">See infographics on women\u2019s political representation here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2023 general elections again, delivered low numbers for women in the National Assembly. The representation of women in the incoming Assembly is not a significant improvement from the outgoing 9th Assembly. The 10th Assembly will have women occupying 3 out of 109 seats (2.7%) in the Senate and 17 out of 360 seats in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}