Senate president, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has joined people around the world to celebrate the 2019 International Women’s Day.
Saraki who took to micro- blogging site, Twitter to appreciate women, wrote: “Today, I join the world over, in celebrating the great achievements of women across Nigeria and the world who continue to play transformative roles in various spheres of influence that impact our future. #IWD2019 #InternationalWomensDay”.
TheLagostimes gathered that International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. It is a global event marked annually to celebrate and support women’s rights while calling for gender equality.
The first observance of women’s day on a national level took place in New York on February 28, 1909. It was marked on March 8 in several European countries in 1914 in support of women’s suffrage.
The first country to make the day an official holiday was the erstwhile Soviet Union in 1965.
But it became a truly global event when the United Nations began marking March 8 as International Women’s Day in 1975, focusing on the empowerment of women.