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A female
entrepreneur in Akwa Ibom, Esther Eka, has said that economic
empowerment of women is indispensable to the country’s poverty
reduction efforts.

Mrs. Eka, who is a
member of the steering committee, International Cooperative Alliance
for Africa and Gender Equality, and president of the Nigeria
Cooperative Women Alliance, made the assertion in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Uyo.

She said that women
were mothers and care givers, hence their empowerment would ensure that
children were well brought up and given proper training, adding that
her organisation had assisted women in Akwa Ibom to form more than 400
producers and consumers cooperative groups.