Despite Buhari’s assurances, 2023 proposed budget undermines women, group decries

Following a 56 percent budget line reduction for Women’s Economic Empowerment, (WEE), projects in the proposed 2023 national budget, the National Council for Women Societies, (NCWS), has lamented that despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to the economic advancement of women, there is almost no money in the budget to support them.