Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Mr. Godwin Emefiele has hailed the contributions of women at the bank, saying closing gender gap was part of the bank’s corporate strategy.
He gave the commendation Friday in his message in commemoration of this year’s International Women’s Day.
Emefiele, who said achieving gender equality must go beyond voicing the slogan, urged all and sundry to take deliberate steps towards closing the gender gap, something, according to him, the bank had taken seriously by integrating it into its corporate strategy.
He described this year’s theme “Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change” as “apt given the global wave of change towards finding more smart and innovative technological methods of achieving positive change.”
The governor, who said achieving gender-equality was not one man’s task, charged employees of the bank to be conscious of and understand their individual and collective roles in ensuring equality without compromising excellence.
The International Women’s Day is celebrated globally every March 8, and the Bank has lined up series of events to commemorate it on March 12, 19, 21, 2019.
These activities are spearheaded by a bank-wide team led by the deputy governor in charge of financial system stability, Mrs. Aishah Ahmad.
