The Nigerian Women Trust Fund (NWTF) in collaboration with Sound Sense Deaf Empowerment Initiative (SSDEI), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), held a capacity building for some of the students of the Government Secondary School, Kuje, Abuja, Nigeria, on Digital Privacy and Preventing Digital Violence as part of the 2025 16 Days of Activism against Gender Based Violence in the school hall on 27 November 2025.
The event aimed to ensure inclusion of PWD’s in the 16 Days of Activism programming and advocacy, hence the choice of a Special School for the deaf and hearing students and strategic partners like NCC and NITDA in Abuja, as IT and digital regulatory agencies.
Key stakeholders including parents graced the occasion.
Both the deaf amd hearing students showed certain level of knowledge impact during the capacity building as they expressed knowledge gained on different aspects of digital literacy.
The CEO of the Nigerian Women Trust Fund, Ms. Brenda Anugwom in her remarks said, tchnology should open doors, not create new barriers. Yet many young women and girls with disabilities face double discrimination online targeted harassment, cyberbullying, exclusion, and abuse simply because of who they are.
“Digital violence is not just online. It affects mental health, confidence, education, and safety. But today, We choose unity.
Ttoday, as we mark the 16 Days of Activism, we raise our voices against a growing and urgent threat digital violence against women and girls to say NO to digital violence against all women and girls including those of us living with disabilities.
Let us build a world where every student, every girl, and every young woman can learn, lead, and shine without fear.”
I commend Senator Akpabio for his maturity, I have always known him as a man who values the female gender.
I also want to encourage the advocacy for women to be given special priority in contesting for political positions, more awareness needs to be created, it was not easy for me to emerge as the first female elected Councilor of my Ward at the age of 34 years, I was even rejected by fellow women, it took me extra energy and the intervention of the wife of ABIA State Governor to be able to emerge at the primaries, I had to spend extra in advocacy visit to women forums of my constituency to canvas for votes and get them to believe in my candidacy, I refused to be discouraged by major factors, if sponsored, I aim to go higher in my political aspiration.
We need to increase awareness on women supporting women campaign even as the supported women work hard to make a difference in the community in order to encourage voters.
I personally hope and desire to attract as much development as I can to my community.