- Falana said the event was part of her yearly commitment to giving back to society
- Falana described women and children as the most affected by insecurity
- She argued that Nigeria’s persistent security challenges highlight the urgent need for greater female participation in leadership
Senior Advocate of Nigeria and founder of Women Empowerment and Legal Aid (WELA), Mrs Funmi Falana, has raised concerns over the impact of Nigeria’s worsening insecurity on women and children.
Eko Hot Blog reports that Falana described the continued marginalisation of women in governance as a contributing factor to the country’s challenges, calling the situation “shameful and embarrassing.”
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She spoke on Sunday in Ado-Ekiti during a visit to the Erelu Angela Adebayo Children’s Home, Iyin-Ekiti, where she held her annual Christmas outreach, distributing food items and gifts to children in the orphanage.
Falana said the event was part of her yearly commitment to giving back to society and reminding vulnerable children that they are valued and deserving of care and opportunity.
According to her, resources should be channelled toward meaningful causes that uplift the less privileged rather than wasted on extravagance.
She argued that Nigeria’s persistent security challenges highlight the urgent need for greater female participation in leadership, insisting that women bring compassion and fiscal discipline to governance.
“Nigeria has consistently had male leadership, yet insecurity continues to worsen. Women deserve the opportunity to demonstrate a different approach,” she said.
Speaking further, Falana described women and children as the most affected by insecurity, lamenting incidents of school abductions and the erosion of safety in homes and learning environments.
She warned that future generations would hold today’s leaders accountable if decisive action is not taken to confront terrorism and criminality.
Falana also criticised the inability of authorities to address terrorism and its sponsors, calling the situation deeply troubling and unsustainable.
She recalled her recent call on President Tinubu to convene an emergency meeting on the growing crisis affecting children, citing statistics showing that over 18.5 million Nigerian children are out of school, the majority of them girls.
According to her, poor funding of education, early marriages, displacement, and recruitment of children into criminal activities continue to worsen the crisis.
She stressed that beyond ceremonial celebrations such as Children’s Day, governments at all levels must urgently implement policies that secure the future and wellbeing of Nigerian children.
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