Girls centre will get first wheelchair ramp after 34 years – Information Company of Nigeria
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Via Philomina Attah
Abuja, Oct. 16, 2026 (NAN) The Maryam Babangida Nationwide Centre for Girls Building says it is going to mark its thirty fourth anniversary on Oct. 17 with a focal point on innovation, inclusion and ladies empowerment.
The Director-Basic of the centre, Dr Adedayo Benjamins-Laniyi, disclosed this on Friday when saying actions to mark its 34 years anniversary in Abuja.
Benjamins-Laniyi stated the centre, established 34 years in the past via overdue First Girl Maryam Babangida, had operated with out get right of entry to for girls on wheelchairs till now.
She stated the centre had built its first wheelchair accessibility ramp, constructed via Julius Berger without charge to executive as Company Social Duty.
The D-G stated the intervention adopted an accessibility audit carried out in collaboration with the Nationwide Fee for Individuals with Disabilities.
Benjamins-Laniyi stated on assumption of place of work on June 1, she refused to occupy the D-G’s place of work upstairs till girls with disabilities may just get right of entry to it.
She stated the verdict was once knowledgeable via an enjoy in August when a board member with incapacity, Ms Lois Auta, needed to be lifted via 5 males to wait a gathering upstairs.
The D-G stated Auta, for the primary time on Wednesday, wheeled into the development with dignity with out help.
She stated the centre would additionally redesign its auditorium ramp which had brought about injuries because of fallacious development.
Benjamins-Laniyi stated the centre was once additionally mainstreaming incapacity inclusion past bodily infrastructure.
She stated a visually impaired body of workers who joined the centre 29 years in the past on the maximum junior stage within the ICT division would now head a directorate.
She stated the centre was once upgrading its enabling era and rolling out new empowerment programs, analysis, Synthetic Intelligence and ICT programmes via its six zonal workplaces.
She indexed its companions to incorporate the Top Fee of India and the UN Inhabitants Fund (UNFPA).
The D-G stated the centre was once participating with the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork to unveil the “First 66”, a public portal the place Nigerians would select 65 residing girls icons.
She stated First Girl, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, who not too long ago marked her 66th birthday, can be indexed as primary at the portal.
Benjamins-Laniyi recommended girls to embody team spirit, coining a rate, “She for She”, to counter the narrative that ladies don’t give a boost to girls.
She instructed girls who had contested elections to stay targeted, noting that contesting for place was once a step in opposition to positioning different girls.
She stated the centre was once being repositioned because the entrance place of work of the Federal Ministry of Girls Affairs consistent with the Girls O’Clock declaration of the Minister, Hajia Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim. (NAN)
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Edited via Ekemini Ladejobi