Transnational Corporation Plc, by its energy subsidiaries, Transcorp Power Plc, Ughelli, and Transafam Power Limited, Afam, hosted ladies from Transcorp Power School, Ughelli, and Transafam Power Schools, Afam, to advocate for funding in ladies’ rights because the world commemorates the 2026 International Day of the Girl Child. In line with this 12 months’s theme,
“End Child Marriage and Invest in Girls’ Rights”, the session linked ladies’ rights to training, confidence, ambition, management, and alternative. Around the world, about one in 5 ladies is married earlier than her 18th birthday. West and Central Africa is described as the worldwide centre of kid marriage, with almost 60 million ladies and ladies in the area married as kids, and Nigeria accounts for the biggest 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 ladies, 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 women 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 steer one in every of Africa’s foremost enterprise teams by tenacity, focus and dedication. “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.”
