The Niger State House of Assembly is prepared to establish a law that will grant a six months maternity leave for nursing mothers in the state.
The Deputy Speaker, Afiniki Dauda, made this statement on Sunday, November 19, during a training session on etiquette, protocol, security, and empowerment for female political office holders in Minna, the state capital city.
Dauda had also said that the bill was important to permit women to get the required rest after childbirth and also to promote the health of the nursing mother and her child.
The all-women event organised by the wife of the governor of Niger State, Fatima Bago, was aimed at enhancing women’s participation in governance and equipping them with the required business and life skills for them to fit into their new roles as political officeholders and wives of elected and appointed political officials.
The training was a follow-up to an earlier one previously organised by the First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, in Abuja.
Dauda, in her speech, had said that the six-month maternity leave would enable working-class nursing mothers to completely regain their energy and bond adequately with their children during the period.
Also speaking, the First Lady, Mrs Bago had asked the women to live a modest lifestyle free from of extravagant character.
Resource persons at the event also talked on several issues around gender-based violence, etiquette, security, and general conduct of women that would safe guard their integrity and safety as well as those of their spouses.
