Participants salute NIWA’s capacity training for ANWBN members, describe it as a booster for women’s businesses
By Ishaya Ibrahim
Members of the Association of Nigerian Women in Business Network (ANWBN) and Tax Justice and Governance Platform have described a one-day capacity training anchored by the Neighbourhood Initiative for Women Advancement (NIWA) as roundly impactful.
The event, held in Lagos on October 14 with support from OXFAM and the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, (CISLAC), was hailed by the participants as a spur for bigger business accomplishments.
In her remark, NIWA’s founder, Nancy Oko-Onyia, said the training was to strengthen the capacity of ANWBN and the Tax Justice and Governance Platform to advocate a better tax administration system that is equitable to women in business.
She said Nigerian women are high in entrepreneurship drive, and with the necessary incentives and opportunities, they would easily boost Nigeria’s GDP.
An expert on tax justice, Chinedu Bassey, commended the enthusiasm of the participants and said the project is a mutual capacity initiative to cross-fertilize their capacity in some areas to identify some particular issues that affect the two groups. He said the plan was to join forces to start a process that would solve that problem. He said the participants have shown the zeal to make that process work.
The ANWBN president and other executive council members express appreciation for the capacity training workshop.
They said the training has built their advocacy capacity to engage in result-oriented activities, and access finance to enable them to contribute and actively participate in boosting the Nigerian economy.
