Rationale for the Awards
The rationale for the awards are as follows:
The Feminine Nigeria Achievement Awards have been established to identify, publicly recognize and reward women whose personal and professional conduct have been exemplary and whose achievements have been outstanding. The awards seek to publicly recognize women in Nigeria whom have achieved outstanding accomplishments in various forms of endevour such as entrepreneurs, professionals, corporate executives, public institutional managers diplomats, sportswomen and traditional rulers among others.
It is instructive that over the years, several different award schemes have been introduced in Nigeria. Some of these have been generalist and therefore cross-sectoral while others have been activity or sector specific. However very few have specifically strived to recognize the accomplishments of women on the basis of their gender. The result is that awardees at most award schemes are inordinately skewed towards members of the male gender and thus deserving women are deprived of the public recognition they should be entitled to.
This award scheme sets out to correct this situation by giving due recognition to women whose accomplishments have been outstanding but whose achievements have not been publicly acknowledged to date.
Ultimatelynthe Feminine Nigeria Achievement Awards are being established to create a pool of role models who serve to set new higher standards of accomplishments for women in Nigeria to aspire to emulate in terms of their professional achievements and their personal conduct. Thus our awards seek to inspite women in Nigeria to raise themselves to be the best they can be, on both their professional and personal levels by identifying and publicly recognizing exemplary performance and conduct.
Instructively, in Ghana our awards have drawn both local and international attention to the capabilities and actual, achievements of women in that country, inspiring several new initiatives to promote entrepreneurial and professional leadership among exemplary women and networking between them.
We are confident that the Feminine Nigeria Achievement Awards will produce similar positive results, trends and initiatives in Africa’s most populous nation and largest economy.
