The National Centre for Women Development (NCWD) is a Nigerian state-owned enterprise based in Abuja. It was established in 1997. UN Women, National Centre for Women Development, Global Database on Violence Against Women, 2011.
History The NWCD was commissioned on 17 October 1997, and modelled on the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW). It works in collaboration with Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development.Government of Nigeria, Response to the questionnaire on violence against women, Annex C: National Centre for Women Development, 2011. Between 1997 and 2003 the NCWD published a magazine, Images of the Nigerian Woman.Eziuku Joy Chidinma, A Multi-Visual Creative Communication Design Approach: The role of women to the less privileged in the society and to nation building, MA thesis, University of Nigeria, 2012.
The NCWD has had some leaders; in 2003, Esther Ahudiyu Mangzha was appointed Director General. In 2013 President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Onyeka Onwenu as Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of the NCWD. Onwenu served for two and a half years, claiming to have raised morale under difficult conditions in which she faced some ethnic opposition.Onyeka Onwenu, My story as DG National Centre for Women Development, Vanguard, 18 February 2016. In February 2016 President Muhammadu Buhari removed Onwenu, appointing Abdulmalik Dauda to succeed her as Acting Director General. Onwenu criticised Dauda for reversing some staffing changes. Dauda died in April 2016.Women Centre Acting D-G dies at 57, The Guardian, 16 April 2016. Accessed 20 May 2020. In 2017 Mary Ekpere-Eta was appointed Director General of NCWD.Nkechi Chima Onyele, Women must never settle for inferior positions – Eta, DG, National Centre for Women Development, The Sun, 12 September 2017. Accessed 18 May 2020. In 2021 Asabe Vilita Bashir was appointed Director General of the NCWD and is the current Director General.
Hall of Fame The NWCD celebrates the achievement of prominent Nigerian women with a Hall of Fame. Names of notable Nigerian women are etched in marble on the wall. The wall includes First Ladies of Nigeria such as Aisha Muhammadu Buhari, Maryam Babangida, Stella Obasanjo and Patience Jonathan, and other prominent women such as Dr Elizabeth Awoliyi, Senator Franca Afegbua, Dr (Mrs) Dora Akunyili, Dr (Mrs) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Mrs Doyin Abiola, Prof Grace Alele Williams and Mrs Sarah Jibrin.Nkechi Chima, Why we set up hall of fame for Nigerian women –Mary Ekpere-Eta, DG, Women Development Centre, The Sun, 1 March 2020. Accessed 20 May 2020. In 2007, 27 women were inducted into the Hall of Fame. In June 2019, 22 more women were inducted:Olayemi John-Mensah, Dev’t centre inducts 22 women to hall of fame, Daily Trust, 6 June 2019. Accessed 20 May 2020. Alhaja Kudirat Abiola Stella Ameyo Adadevoh Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf Alhaja Abibat Mogaji Barr Oby Nwankwo Regina Achi Nentui Iyom Josephine Anenih Oluremi Tinubu Binta Garba Hajiya Mariya Sunusi Dantata Stella Okoli Adenike Osofisan Priscilla Ekwueme Eleje Adebimpe Bologun Iyalode Alaba Lawson Folorunsho Alakija Nike Okundaye Mo Abudu Itunu Hotonu Blessing Liman Abimbola Jaiyeola Maureen Mmadu
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