The 2024 budget analysis for Nigeria’s states reveals a stark and disturbing contradiction. Six state governments - Bayelsa, Adamawa, Borno, Rivers, Anambra, and Zamfara - recorded zero budget allocations or specific interventions for women in agriculture.
According to the BudgIT report on the State of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), it is a cold, fiscal denial of a burning economic reality that these women are the hands that feed the nation. In a country struggling with food inflation and insecurity, this failure to invest in the primar
