Women In Aviation Urges Teamwork, Gender Gap Closure To Accelerate Action – Independent Newspaper Nigeria

LAGOS – Ladies In Aviation Worldwide (WAI) Nigeria Chapter has known as on females within the Nigerian aviation trade to undertake workforce work, self-development, coverage formulation and bridging gender hole to speed up motion for inclusivity.

WAI said this in an announcement on Thursday in commemoration of the Worldwide Ladies’s Day (IWD) celebration, noticed worldwide on Sunday, March 8, 2025.

The 2025 theme for IWD was: ‘Speed up Motion.’

 Dr. Mrs. Rejoice Ndudinachi, President, WAI in digital assembly consisting of girls professionals within the sector, in her welcome handle, mentioned that it was essential to interrupt the present obstacles and take away obstacles that hindered gender fairness and inclusivity.

She additionally emphasised on workforce work, coverage and advocacy formulation, management engagement, mentorship and sponsorship amongst others.

Ndudinachi appreciated and celebrated ladies within the trade significantly WAI members and emphasised the necessity to break the obstacles of discrimination which have been in existence for lengthy.

Ndudinachi submitted that the obstacles have to be damaged by way of professionalism and teamwork; therefore ladies in aviation should develop themselves, help each other and interact in workforce work to speed up motion.

She additionally identified the necessity to encourage and catch the youthful era of females into the aviation profession.

She mentioned: “Let’s break the obstacles, let’s take away the obstacles, let’s develop ourselves, and let’s be skilled. Ladies, let’s join, interact and encourage the following era.

“We have to get the youthful ones into our imaginative and prescient, as function fashions we have to catch them younger, sure, they should be with us within the aviation trade, let’s get them in to speed up motion.

“Ladies break the obstacles, ladies help ladies, the sky is open to all, we have to help ladies to get there, we have to work collectively as a workforce, we have to join, we have to interact. We have to work collectively, it’s time to work collectively and speed up motion.”

Additionally talking, Mohammed Binta, Vice President (V), WAI Nigeria, celebrated and honoured the legacies of girls who fought tirelessly for girls’s rights, significantly in Northern Nigeria.

She reiterated the necessity for extra to be accomplished regardless of the enormous strides already achieved by the ladies of us and inspired ladies to indicate empathy to others.

In her presentation, Engr. Uche Patrick-Obikile, Vice President (IV), WAI Nigeria, emphasised the necessity for coverage and advocacy formulation in closing the gender hole.

She averred that strategic partnerships and collaborations amongst stakeholders would go an extended strategy to intensify the work already begun in making certain ladies inclusivity.

Additionally, Amb. Ijeoma Chukwu, the Lagos State Chairperson, WAI, Nigeria, described ladies as sturdy and resilient beings.

She known as for inclusiveness in reaching big strides for growth.

Aisha Ibrahim Dayyab, the Kano State Chairperson, WAI, Nigeria, lauded the visionary, daring and skillful ladies who took strides in a male dominated trade to shine the torch for others to comply with.

She declared that the sky was now not the restrict for private progress for girls.

Sholademi Olaide, Secretary Lagos Department, WAI, Nigeria, defined the theme: ‘Speed up Motion,’ as a name for urgency in advancing gender equality and empowerment by way of management engagement, mentorship and sponsorship, all geared in direction of embracing inclusiveness.