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Ayomide Ladipo traces this steep decline despite decades of gender policies and millions in funding. The author exposes how 'women's empowerment' has become a superficial tokenism: governors distributing 80,000 goats to women and labelling it 'economic intervention', while billions are allocated for three-day hairdressing training sessions with N50,000 grants. ⁠
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