ECOWAS Gender Equality Essay Competition in Nigeria, 2018

The Nigerian European Union Mission and ECOWAS, the Federal Ministry of Education and the Daily Trust hold an essay competition on gender equality. Competition is part of EU's gender behavior

The purpose of competition is to stimulate children's understanding of women's role in society. Competition is open to high school students in Nigeria, 13-16 years old living in Nigeria.

There are 13 winners in the excellent excellence paper. These finalists will be invited to Abuja and will participate in the awards ceremony on November 28, 2017. Travel expenses and accommodation expenses will be borne by the EU delegation of Nigeria and ECOWAS. In addition, the best 30 papers will be posted in the brochure and will be distributed to the school by the author name of each article. Interested parties should submit papers with more than 500 words and less than 1000 words.

You should write your name, age, class, school name and address at the top of the entry. In order to confirm the age, you need to attach a scan copy of the birth certificate or the signature of the principal.

E-mail the document to DELEGATION-NIGERIAESSAYCOMPETITION-at-eeas.europa.eu or manually envelop the sealed envelope, EU New Moon's Common Embassy Complex to the European Union's mission to Nigeria and Western Europe Please send to non-constitutional street, central business district, Abuja or PMB

280, Garki, Abuja. Please put this article in an envelope labeled "Gender Equality Paper Contest".

The judging committee will choose 13 best papers consisting of Nigerian school teachers, gender activists, daily trust staff, jurors including EU staff.

The Congress of Nigeria, the Adamawa parliament and the Gombe parliament continue to discuss the Gender Equality Opportunity Act. In October, the ECOWAS Court ruled that Nigeria infringed the right to infringe the dignity of the three women, accidentally accusing three women as sex workers, illegally arrested and abused. Internally displaced women and girls often reported sexual violence including rape and sexual exploitation of members of the military and private joint task force in the northeast in exchange for food and other necessities. Households led by women report discrimination in access to food aid and livelihood opportunities in specific locations

Nigeria plays an important leadership role in West Africa and the continent of Africa. The West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) is headquartered in Abuja. Nigeria accounts for approximately 70% of GDP in 15 countries of ECOWAS, accounting for more than half of the population of the ECOWAS region, and plays an important role in ECOWAS. For example, Nigeria is primarily responsible for the development of the ECOWAS common external tariff (CET) for decades and the protection and flexibility that will remain part of the tariff system. US exports to ECOWAS in 2014 is $ 999 billion, accounting for about 40% of all US exports to sub-Saharan Africa. In the same year, the total import of ECOWAS to the United States was $ 5.6 billion. The US - ECOWAS trade accounts for nearly 30% of the total trade between the US and Sub - Saharan Africa.

Like the Southern African Development Community, ECOWAS is like an unequal federation of major regional forces - in this case Nigeria - supported by smaller countries. It is not a real equal festival. Other African countries regard it as a simple cover for the spread of Nigerian troops. 25 There is an indication that today the East African Community (EAC) may follow SADC and ECOWAS, from purely economic organizations to organizations that encourage safe cooperation among their members.

The investment in ECOWAS as an organization of Nigeria is considerable. At the same time, this is an investment that Nigeria is making a lot of revenue. The enormous amount of money and money Nigeria provides to ECOWAS and its member countries is based on a general policy that is sometimes called sensible self-interest. For example, Nigeria recognizes that promoting free trade in the region is one of the goals of the West African economic community and it is essential to benefit from balanced future economic development. However, although Nigeria played a big brother role at ECOWAS, the Bukhari administration failed to comply with the Protocol on Individual Free Movement required by Article 3 of the ECOWAS Treaty. The government shut down the border of Nigeria and expelled illegal aliens. Many West African leaders are publicly committed to reopening their borders, as the closure of the Nigerian border has had an impact on neighboring countries in Nigeria.