The Nigeria for Women Programme Scale-Up (NFWP-SU) has deepened its statewide mobilisation in Ogun State, seeking the backing of traditional rulers and market women in Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government to strengthen the impact of its economic empowerment drive.
The initiative, which targets no fewer than 105,000 women, on Monday took its sensitisation campaign to Lusada International Market and major traditional institutions across the council area.
Speaking during a courtesy visit to the palace of the Onigboko of Orile-Igboko, Igbesa, the Project Coordinator, Mrs. Bolanle Fadairo, said the programme was designed to build durable economic capacity for women through financial literacy, market linkages, technology adoption and well-structured group systems.
Fadairo stressed that the programme was “strictly non-political, community-driven and focused on long-term empowerment rather than one-off handouts.”
According to her, women in other participating zones have already begun recording significant progress in income growth, savings culture and business expansion.
“What we have seen in other zones shows clearly that the model works when communities embrace it,” she said.
“The five-year programme is deliberately structured to move women away from economic vulnerability into sustainable independence.”
She urged traders and artisans in Lusada and its neighbouring communities to organise themselves into functional groups to maximise the benefits of the intervention.
Fadairo added that the outreach formed part of the programme’s strategy to strengthen community ownership, ensuring that women at the grassroots—especially traders, artisans and micro-entrepreneurs—fully benefit from the State’s empowerment agenda.
In their separate remarks, the Onigboko of Orile-Igboko Igbesa, Oba Itu Yusuf Olasukanmi, and the Olodan of Oda, Odan-Abuja, Oba Nosiru Teslimi Ayinla, hailed the initiative and pledged the support of their stools.
Both monarchs commended Governor Dapo Abiodun for prioritising women-focused development, describing the programme as “a path to financial liberation for women across communities.”
They also assured that community leaders, market heads and youth structures would be mobilised to ensure the project succeeds in Ado-Odo/Ota.
At the Lusada International Market, traders welcomed the sensitisation efforts and expressed readiness to participate in the empowerment scheme.
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