Dr Gloria Shoda re-elected Board member of International Council of Women (ICW-ICF).

Dr Gloria Shoda re-elected Board member of International Council of Women (ICW-ICF).

Pix. From L-R: Dr Gloria Laraba Shoda(Board member), Saida Zniber(VP), Radhia Jerbi(VP), Martine Marandel,(President), Sirirat(VP), Ludovina Costrs(Treasurer), Doreen Borg Zammit(Board Member).
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By: Charles Segun Adegbite

The only black woman in the Board of International Council of Women, ICW-CIF, Paris, France, Dr Gloria Laraba Shoda, has been reelected for the board membership of that global women organization.

She also retained her position as the President of the Africa Regional Council of Women (ARCW-CRAF).

Dr Shoda was re-elected during the ongoing 37th General Assembly global conference in Marrakesh, Morocco.
She won the election for 2nd term with over 90% of votes cast on Wednesday by members of the National Council of Women who converged from countries around the world for ICW-CIF GENERAL ASSEMBLY to elect new executive officers, after the expiration of their three years term of office.

Dr Shoda (3rd from the right: in red attires), with others

She was first elected to the board of the ICW in May 2022. And She remains the first black African to be so elected.

She has spent three years along with other board members for their first term. Five of them then re-contested but three of them won.
With this victory she will serve along with other women's leaders in the world for another 3 years on the Board of ICW-CIF.

Consequently she remains the President of the African Regional Council of Women, ARCW.

Thereafter, they had a regional meeting and agreed that all the National Councils for Women's Societies in Africa will embark on an awareness campaign on "Violence Against Infants and Minors". So, they issued a communique to that effect.

BRIEF HISTORY OF HER GLOBAL POSITION
Her first term election took place on May 17, 2022, at the Mecure Point Hotel, Avignon Centre, France, during the annual general meeting (AGM) of the ICW.

It was at the time she just finished her tenure as the National President of the National Council for Women's Societies, NCWS, in Nigeria.

During her tenure as leader of the NCWS, she led Nigerian women very well and did exceptionally well that the then President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, honoured her with the national award of the MFR (Member of the Order of the Federal Republic), shortly after the end of her tenure.

In a letter issued with reference number FMSDIGA/NHA/001/T/93 and signed on 19th. September, 2022  by the then Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs, Senator George Akume, it reads inter alia:

  "Dr Gloria Laraba Shoda,

Dear Former President, NCWS,

2022 NATIONAL HONOURS AWARD LETTER.

    I have the honour to formally inform you that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has approved the conferment of the National Honours on you, in the rank of MFR (Member of the Order of the Federal Republic)...

Senator Akume stated further in the letter thus:

"The investiture ceremony is scheduled to take place at the International Conference Centre, (ICC) Abuja on Tuesday, 11th. October, 2022 at 9am.”

With her reelection, Dr(Mrs)Shoda is poised to keep impacting Africa and the world by continuing to use her wealth of knowledge and social capital to make advocacy, do negotiation and use other methods of addressing women's challenges and proffering solutions to the problems, and thereby make global communities get better.

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