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# Blessing Nsiegbe

Blessing Nsiegbe is a politician of the People's Democratic Party from Rivers State, Nigeria. She is a member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria from Port Harcourt II federal constituency. She won election into the federal house of representatives in 2015 but it went to the election tribunal. The election was upheld in 2016 and she was declared winner.

## Quotes

* An adult education programme will soon take off in the constituency. The programme is being initiated by her office in conjunction with the Federal Ministry of Education to boost Adult Literacy in the constituency.
* My office is initiating series of programmes to improve the condition of women in the area. I urge you to continue to remain united for the progress of the community.
# Mariatu Bala Usman

Mariatu Bala Usman is a Nigerian politican, who serves as the commissioner for Ministry of Health, Katsina State. She is part of the Executive Council of Katsina State.

## Quotes

* People travel for an hour to access health facilities in the state. Past administrations did not do well across the state, which led to the collapsed of health care system.
** https://dailypost.ng/2017/07/26/katsina-residents-travel-hour-access-health-facilities-commissioner/
* We have 24 local governments in Katsina state and past administrations did not judiciously apply part of loans they borrowed in the health care sector.
** https://dailypost.ng/2017/07/26/katsina-residents-travel-hour-access-health-facilities-commissioner/
* All health personnel working in facilities across the 34 local districts of the state have been adequately informed of the development and trained on how to handle Lassa fever cases.
** http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2016-04/07/content_38190438.htm
* The loan, if granted, would be used essentially to develop and upgrade primary health care in the 34 local government areas of the state.
** https://nigerianbulletin.com/threads/islamic-bank-fg-approves-110m-loan-for-katsina.241686/
# Fransina Kahungu

Fransina Ndateelela Kahungu (born 1970) is a Namibian politician serving as a Windhoek city councilor. She previously served as deputy mayor of Windhoek in 2016 and 2017 and mayor of Windhoek from 2019 to 2020. Kahungu became the SWAPO Party Women Council (SPWC) Secretary in 2022.

## Quotes

* The two of us used to dance in public without listening to opinions of people about us dancing
* He ensured a sustained increase in women’s participation, inclusivity and influence within Swapo through advocacy, lobbying and a campaign of inclusion of women in development
* I attribute smart works of the first lady of Namibia’s office to the eagle of the eye of the Presidency when identifying the talents
** Fransina Kahungu explains her relationship with Geingob
* We must stop buying favours, comrades. Why must you give a regional coordinator something, who is already receiving kasomething? Yet, as you can see, this comrade at the section level is not receiving an allowance from the Swapo Party. Is that not favours? Why must you send airtime to a comrade who is already receiving airtime? But your district information and mobilisation officer is not getting anything
* You tell everyone, and I must tell you, that some political parties are going to die very soon in Kunene region
** Fransina Kahungu addressing SWAPO party members
* As we celebrate African women’s contributions towards political, socio-economic, cultural and religious empowerment, the contributions and aspirations of Meekulu Putuse Appolus and other women should be celebrated too
* Let us also appreciate the Namibian women who participated in resisting the German conquest and all other colonial rule
** Fransina Kahungu: Invest In Education: Securing the Future of Women And Girls In Africa
# Glory Emmanuel Edet

Glory Emmanuel Edet is a Nigerian princess and women & child-rights activist. She is a two-time Commissioner for Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare in Akwa Ibom state.

## Quotes

* Do not be afraid. God is with you. We will mobilize our various local government areas and constituencies towards achieving success. You are a committed Executive Council member who is resourceful and result-oriented. Go, make us proud.
** https://businessday.ng/news/article/2023-umo-enos-endorsement-gets-a-boost-from-a-ibom-exco/
* God has blessed the state with fertile soil, and hailed the Governor for paying a premium to agriculture and food security.
* the massive investments in coconut plantation are part of measures to further diversify the economy of the state, adding that Akwa Ibom is set to take over the International coconut oil market in Nigeria.
* Coconut oil is taking over the crude oil market, Governor Emmanuel is a visionary leader for planting coconut across the state and building the coconut refinery at Mkpat Enin.
* In your first tenure agriculture was key and now agriculture has been revolutionised. We can only reduce poverty through agriculture, You have empowered farmers by giving farm inputs. We now cultivate onions and other vegetables. You have made farmers go back to cash crops, just two months ago cocoa seedlings were distributed to farmers. Farmers are so happy with the cocoa processing factory at Ini.
** https://www.vanguardngr.com/2021/09/gov-emmanuel-institutes-akwa-ibom-coconut-day/
* one person can be Governor at a time, but “that does not mean the Governor hates other aspirants but no man can stop what is divinely written.
** https://businessday.ng/news/article/2023-umo-enos-endorsement-gets-a-boost-from-a-ibom-exco/
# Marie Ebikake

Marie Ebikake is a Nigerian politician and member of the 10th House of Representatives from Brass-Nembe Federal Constituency. A member of People's Democratic Party, PDP Ebikake was a former commissioner for transportation in Bayelsa State.

## Quotes

* I think the significant thing to note is the reward of success for the hard work and fidelity to strategic ground plans of the party, and the all-inclusive campaigns that were hinged on self-evident achievements of the Douye Diri government.
** Roland Oby Ogbonnaya, "I’m An Advocate Of Politics Without Bitterness — Hon. Ebikake", Independent (November 25, 2023)
* I am a humane and trusted person who has used my various positions in and out of government to add value to the lives of people, irrespective of tribe or language.
** "Monarch blesses Ebikake during campaign visit", New Telegraph, Nigeria (February 6, 2023)
# Ousseini Hadizatou Yacouba

Ousseini Hadizatou Yacouba (born November 9, 1958) is a politician in Niger. Since 2013, she has served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Mahamadou Issoufou, with the rank of minister. In April 2021, she was appointed Minister of Mines in the government of Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou. In July 2023, following the coup d'état, she was arrested and placed under house arrest by the military junta.

## Quotes

* The Ministry is leading a program of improving knowledge of the mining potential, diversifying partners, improving governance and the increasing of the contribution of the extractive industries to the development of our country.
* The main advances made in the mining sector over the past two years have focused on improving the governance of the sector. In view of the significant challenges of the sector, the government has deemed it necessary to put in place a strategic framework that responds to new development challenges
* Secondly, Niger's mining code has been revised to take into account certain current concerns and improve the sector’s attractiveness; this is currently pending approvals.
* The ECOWAS Commission and the Government of the Republic of Niger are collaborating to organize the 3rd edition of the ECOWAS Mining and Petroleum Forum, ECOMOF 2021, to be held in Niamey from February 16-18, 2022. ECOMOF is the gathering of the highest government delegations from the fifteen member states of West Africa of ECOWAS: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
** Hadizatou speaking in an interview
# Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou

Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou (born 1954) is a Nigerien politician of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) who served as Prime Minister of Niger between 3 April 2021 and 26 July 2023, until he was deposed in the wake of the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état.

## Quotes

* Security, agriculture and industry are at the forefront of these cooperation areas (between Niger and Turkey). There may also be a free zone opportunity for Turkish companies in the industry field. While we want to diversify the areas of cooperation, we are continuing our cooperation in the fields of education, health and humanitarian aid.
** Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou (2021) cited in "Niger needs Turkey's support to fight terrorism: PM Mahamadou" on Daily Sabah, 22 December 2021.
# Ramatu Yaradua

Ramatu Yaradua is the commissioner for Ministry of Investment, Commerce, and Industry in Niger State, Nigeria.

## Quotes

* Over the years, there have been huge gaps between where the sector needs to be and where it actually is due to lack of collaboration and synergy between the Federal and State Ministries of Transportation. To possibly bridge these gaps between the Federal and State levels, the Federal Ministry of Transportation saw the need to set up a Forum that will cover the existing gaps.
* Our vision is to build a strong, non-partisan, non-profit Institution that brings together all 36 appointed Commissioners and State Special Assistant/Advisers on Transportation to actively and effectively promote inclusiveness, good Governance, sustainable growth and development in the Transportation Sector.
* Seriously I did not campaign for this position. I acted for a couple of months and election was conducted that confirmed me to seat at the helm of the forum such as this. What can I do on my own? Honestly it is a collective effort of all Transport Commissioners, a fall out of the last annual retreat.
** Ramatu in an interview
# Agnes Kafula

Agnes Mpingana Kafula (born 1 November 1955) is a Namibian politician who has served as mayor of Windhoek from November 2012 to December 2014. She is a survivor of the Cassinga massacre of 4 May 1978.

## Quotes

* As an elected public leader and in the spirit of the principle of good governance, public scrutiny, public accountability and personal integrity, I feel duty-bound to request your office to investigate the purported allegations as reported in the media for the past four months
** Kafula begs for ACC probe
* The Festive Season is a time for people to get together with family and friends, and a time to care and think about others, especially those who are less fortunate and who find the festive season more painfull than cheerful
** Agnes Kafula switching on Christmas lights
* Somebody has not been doing their job since 2006. I know it’s not all of them but those who are not doing their job should be penalised. Officials should be punished when they don’t do their work
* If you did not do your work, tough luck, we are going ahead with development
** Agnes Kafula bemoans losses on lazy staffs
* There are times when there are appointments with the municipality which coincide with meetings at Home Affairs. What you do is you tend to sacrifice one of them
** Agnes Kafula comments on Commission rejection of her application for paid leave
# Nana Shettima

Nana Kashim Shettima (born 22 July 1975) is the second lady of Nigeria since 2023, as the wife of Vice President Kashim Shettima. She was the first lady of Borno State from 2011 to 2019 when her husband was governor. She is the CEO of SWOT foundation and Model Orphanage Integrated School, Maiduguri.

## Quotes

* I encourage you women to continue to be strong and to strive to succeed in all you do because you hold the key to national development.
* I urge you to carry everyone along regardless of religion and ethnicity, strive to create inclusion in all you do and work together as one, encouraging each other to be better.
* I commend the initiative of the Women of Worth Global Group. This is a major milestone in promoting women and giving them hope in politics and all spheres of life.
* My inability to attend Sunday’s meeting with the wife of the president, Dame Patience Jonathan, over the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, was not to disrespect her office.
# Lydia Wanyoto

Lydia Wanyoto Mutende (née Lydia Wanyoto), is a Ugandan lawyer, politician and diplomat, who served as the Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of African Union Commission (DSRCC), based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. From July 2014 until August 2014, she temporarily served as Head of the African Union Mission to Somalia.

## Quotes

* Turn yourself into a pro by recommitting daily to your lifelong goals and aspirations. Act towards your vision not later or tomorrow but now.
* Ugandans should be hopeful. Life is about being hopeful. That skepticism and noise is not good
* If you hear people like Buganda speaking with a loud voice, it is not because they are tribal. It is because this is at their door step
* My polling agents from Bugema, Nakaloke, and Bukasakya and Bungokho-Mutoto sub counties were beaten by the supporters of Nakayenze and my declaration forms destroyed. I can’t accept the results and we are going to Courts of Law to challenge this because I believe that I won the race but the Electoral Commission declared a wrong person
# Hellen Auma Wandera

Hellen Auma Wandera is a Ugandan politician who is the Busia District Women Representative elect in Uganda's elect 11th Parliament.She serves on the Committee on Presidential Affairs in the eleventh parliament of Uganda.

## Quotes

* Thank you East African Civil Society Organisation. I am humbled.
* So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded.You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
* After I was declared winner, Sharon Nabwire (her closest competitor) said it was a mistake and demanded a recount which I still won
* Because I was not married, most of my opponents used that against me but I won with a big margin,
* I had to plough people’s gardens to raise additional money to contribute to school fees for myself. I began vending tomatoes in my Senior Two holidays which first got me good profit. Out of that, I later got a small stall and started dealing in other items such as vegetables
# Jovanice Twinobusingye

Jovanice Twinobusingye is a Ugandan politician, legislator and woman representative member of parliament for Kiruhura District in the eleventh Parliament of Uganda. She is a member of the National Resistance Movement (NRM). She sits on the Parliamentary Committee on Public Service and Local Government which is chaired by Hon. Onzima Godfrey.

## Quotes

* Thank you Honourable colleagues Members of @Parliament_Ug for standing with us on 2023 International Women's Day national celebrations in Kiruhura District. I am so much humbled.
* I am happy that the minister asked for supplementary budget and I recommend that the House gives that immediately
# Miriam Mukhaye

Miriam Mukhaye is a Ugandan politician who is an elected, independent Woman Member of Parliament for Mbale District from 2021 to 2026. She is also the CEO of Miriam Mukhaye Foundation, an initiative tasked with "mobilizing and supporting the needy grassroots community members (farmers) using personal funds". She also serves in different capacities and committees, including the Equal Opportunities Committee, Gender, Labor and Social Development Committee at Parliament of Uganda.

## Quotes

* UCDA has created a supportive environment for farmers in its district by offering training and assistance to enhance coffee production. Meanwhile, other MPs, such as Gorreth Namugga (NUP, Mawogola County South), have criticized the Ministry of Agriculture, accusing it of mismanaging several projects.
* In the Elgon sub-region, we were fortunate to receive some rainfall, and people were beginning to harvest their crops, only for everything to be washed away. It's crucial that disaster responses are swift and timely.
* Referring to the devastating landslides in Bulambuli District on May 23, 2023, which claimed the lives of more than six people, I am calling for the implementation of strong mitigation policies to safeguard the lives and well-being of all citizens in the face of such tragedies.
# Polykleitos

Polycletus (490 B.C.E. – 420 B.C.E.), ancient Greek sculptor, bronze worker and theorist.

## Quotes about Polykleitos:

* Famous work of a great contemporary master of Phidias, of Argive Polycletus, is the so-called doryphorus, i.e. the statue of a winning athlete holding a spear in his left hand. In this figure the movement of the trunk is shown as it follows from that of the legs: the body gravitates on the right leg and therefore, precisely as anatomy requires, the side of the right side rises, the shoulder descends, and from this general movement results minor shifts in the intermediate parts of the trunk. No one could describe this attitude as awkward; the figure, although firm, moves freely, articulated, lightly. And with this art can boast of an acquired capital. [...] [Polycletus] was the first to fully satisfy the postulates of anatomical truth. (Emanuel Löwy)
* He was the first to establish single-legged figures; he was the first to determine the proportions with a book on symmetry, and with a statue entirely in conformity with his precepts, which he named the Canon or the Regulus. For this work the architects regarded him as a legislator; and therefore it probably follows that the Greek statues, as reflects, appear to have almost all been created with the same fundamental laws, and emerged, so to speak, from the same school. (Luigi Antonio Lanzi)
* Polycletus is, after Phidias, the most respected name in the history of. In the idea of ​​beauty and diligence he is placed before anyone else by Quintilian and Strabo. Measuring his talent with that of Phidias, he did not dare compete with him in the most sublime character: he occupied himself with forming youthful simulacrums. Some among Quintilian believed that under his men grew in beauty; but the Gods diminished. (Luigi Antonio Lanzi)
* Polycletus was a sublime poet in his art, and tried to surpass the beauty of nature itself in his figures: therefore his imagination was mainly concerned with youthful forms, so he will undoubtedly be better able to express the softness of a Bacchus, or the flourishing youth of an Apollo, than the robustness of a Hercules, or the mature age of an Aesculapius. For this reason those who wanted to blame him said that they wanted greater expression in his figures, that is, that the parts were more strongly indicated. (Johann Joachim Winckelmann)

## Works:

* Statue of Zeus in Olympia

## Related entries:

* Parthenon

## Note:

* ↑ Statues in which, to increase their naturalness, the body gravitates on one leg, while the other is slightly bent.
# Bernadette Jagger

Bernadette Maria Jagger (born 26 February 1958 in Riemvasmaak, South Africa) is a Namibian politician. She is a member of SWAPO and became appointed to the party's Central Committee in 2012. In 2015 she won a seat in parliament. In a cabinet reshuffle in February 2018 she was appointed Deputy Minister of Environment and Tourism, succeeding Tommy Nambahu.

## Quotes

* In response to curbing GBV, the MGEPESW has various programmes in place which are continuously implemented. These programmes aim to create awareness, widening people’s knowledge of GBV, encouraging them to report this crime, and avoiding becoming perpetrators. Additionally, there are initiatives that help address the root causes of GBV by empowering those who are victims
** Bernadette Jagger on the increase in crime rate
* We need to strengthen measures aimed at addressing women’s and girls’ barriers to digital inclusion. We need to encourage gender-balanced cross-functional innovation and involve women and girls in ICT at all levels in order for us to achieve our desired goals on gender equality
* There is therefore, a need to strengthen our efforts to achieve Gender Equality for a sustainable tomorrow. A gender-responsive approach to innovation, technology and digital education can help us to increase the awareness of women and girls regarding their rights and civic engagement
* This implies that although women constitute the majority of media students, they are under-represented in employment and managerial positions in media houses and this is an indication of the entry barriers that women face in the media profession
** Bernadette Jagger addressing barriers to gender inclusion
# Agnes Taaka

Agnes Taaka also known as Taaka Agnes Wejuli (born 3 April 1980) is a Ugandan politician, social worker, and legislator. She is the district woman representative of Bugiri District. She served in the ninth, tenth and eleventh Parliament of Uganda as the Member of Parliament. She belongs to the ruling political party, National Resistance Movement.

## Quotes

* The Minister should also give us a maintenance plan on Kampala-Jinja Highway
* Women in Bugiri are most of the time not invited to attend district-level meetings. This is a very big challenge because they create a big impact on the local levels they represent
* When I am coming very early, I don’t even have to bathe my baby. I just get him out of sleep, put him in his car seat, lock the vehicle and we run up to here…I attend committee meetings. I attend (the) plenary in the afternoon, so I am always there, all the time
# Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo

Joyce Nabbosa Ssebugwawo is a Ugandan politician, entrepreneur and the current Minister of State for Information Communication Technology and National Guidance.
She is a former minister in the Buganda government. She joined the Buganda government in early 1980s where she have worked as a Minister for women, community work and mobilization. A former National Chairperson of Forum for Democratic Change, she is a former Mayor for Rubaga Division in Kampala and an aunt to Queen Sylvia of Buganda.

## Quotes

* I think a hero is really any person intent on making this a better place for all people.
* I extend my heartfelt gratitude to H.E @KagutaMuseveni for the honor and privilege of being reappointed as Minister of state for ICT in your esteemed administration. I am deeply humbled by your continued confidence in my abilities and dedication to serve our country
* I extend my sincere gratitude for the honor of being recognized for my contributions to nurturing women in Fintech. Your acknowledgment is deeply humbling and serves as a source of encouragement for me to continue advocating for gender inclusivity and empowerment.
* The recognition bestowed upon me highlights the collective efforts of all those who are dedicated to creating a more inclusive and diverse ecosystem within Fintech. It is a testament to the importance of fostering opportunities for women to thrive and excel in different roles.
* As leaders we should be seen encouraging our people to embrace the Parish Development Model program and other government programs being implemented in various parts of the country.
* 68% of our Ugandans are still stuck in subsistence farming meaning that they are more vulnerable to poverty. It is therefore in the interest of the government to partner with the media to enhance the dissemination of information, educate the masses especially on savings and cooperatives as a vehicle for development