As the women Equality Day is
being commemorated today in the United States, well- meaning citizens of
Nigeria have also continued to urge the various stakeholders in the Nigeria
polity to formulate policies that will make life better for women in Nigeria. Although
Women's Equality Day is a day proclaimed each year to commemorate the granting
of the vote to women in United States, women equality has become a matter of
global concern with the incoming of the United Nation’s millennium Development
Goals which makes it the third goal.
According to a statement by the Media
Officer of Supermart.ng, Oluwatayo
Alofun “Women equality is not just an American campaign, it is a global
campaign. Don’t forget that it is the third goal of the United Nation’s
Millenium Development Goals. Most of
these women combine career with the task of being mothers, wives and
homemakers. You will agree with me that this is not easy especially in cities
like Lagos. This was why we started Supermart.ng-an
online groceries store that delivers groceries to households in as early as
three hours as a way of making life easier for women in Lagos”.
Speaking further on making life
easier for women, Alofun said “A typical woman will have to go from one grocery
store to another because she can’t get everything she want in just one store,
she will still have to go to local market to shop for local ingredients, all in
the midst of the unpredictable Lagos Traffic. To reduce this stress, Supermart.ng has partnered with leading
supermarkets and local markets to put up a one stop shop online with over
60,000 items including Fresh food, foreign products, Nigerian ingredients,
general groceries and baby products among others”
“Supermart.ng has also invested a lot in
training logistics personnel in order to ensure that our women don’t have to
worry about delivery time. When people shop on supermart.ng, they can choose
the time of the day when they want it delivered. Products are delivered in as
early as three hours. This means that we save the women about three to six
hours which they can use for more profitable things like taking care of their
children, resting or reading for personal development” Alofun added.
We have also been partnering
with other organisations to conduct entrepreneurship trainings for women. In
particular, we have been teaching women how they can leverage technology for
productivity in businesses and in their everyday life. We believe that Nigeria
women deserve more, we are doing our best and we are calling on other
stakeholders both in government and private sectors to do their best in giving
our women the best.
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