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20 Female Engineers Benefit from MAOCADA Initiative for Improved Proficiency, Skills

Twenty (20) female engineers benefited from the Margaret Aina Oguntala Capacity Development Academy​ (MAOCADA) instituted by the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN). The MAOCADA initiative is aimed at upscaling the capacity of young female engineers and enhancing their professional skills to achieve improved technical proficiency and professional confidence. The capacity development academy is in honour of the first female Deputy President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Mrs Margaret Aina Oguntala. The beneficiaries were selected from 150 applicants and will undergo six months of training at​ Kenol Engineering Company Limited and Momas Electricity Meter Manufacturing Company Limited. Speaking at the maiden edition/flag-off of the initiative in Lagos, the President of APWEN, Dr Elizabeth Eterigho, noted that the academy is positioned as Nigeria’s premier advance technical, vocational,​ entrepreneurial, and life skills learning programme to create a generation of​ self-sustained and employable female youths, particularly young engineers.

The World We Want for Women: Re-echoing the Voices of Aspiring Young Girls

Amazons Watch Magazine is thrilled to launch a new segment that will project the voices, opinions, and aspirations for the future of women. As a renowned representative for young girls and a voice for women-related causes, we invited several young ladies across the world between the ages of 9 to 15 to feature in the first ‘The World We Want for Women (4W)’ Short Stories Series. The 4W is a compendium of short stories from young ladies aged 9-25, detailing their vision of the world they want for themselves. This initiative is targeted at girls and young women with lofty ambitions and a dream for the future of women. It is a viable platform for contributing to and orchestrating the future of women in the coming decades. Here, we allow them to dream, reach out and discuss the possibilities of the future and the part we all play to ensure…