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NBA Conference: Chimamanda Adichie Raises Donations For Female Footballers
Popular Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Adichie at the opening ceremony of the Annual General Meeting of the Nigerian Bar Association held in Lagos caused the personalities to donate over N3 million for the NBA female football competition.
Chimamanda noted that there was “injustice” in the monetary compensation earmarked for the male and female NBA teams in the football competition.
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The male team is expected to get N500,000 while the female team would get N200,000 as winning prizes.
However, after Chimamanda Adiche’s charge, several personalities made contributions to increase the women’s football prize to the sum of N3,200,000.
Personalities, who made the donations included the Governor of Plateau State, Simon Lalong, the Federal Minister of Works and Housing of Nigeria, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, Paul Edeh, among others.
During her speech on accountability, the award-winning writer and speaker called on citizens to hold themselves accountable before holding the leaders responsible.
She said, “A bold transition must embrace audacity and innovation. They have called me troublesome. Although it is never enjoyable to be called troublesome. I never set out to provoke for its sake. But I refuse to silence myself for the fear of what I might inadvertently provoke. It has always been important to me to say what I believe, to call out injustice.
“As long as we refuse to untangle the knot of injustice, peace cannot thrive. If we don’t talk about it, we fail to hold leaders accountable and we turn what should be transparent systems into ugly opaque cults.”
In her closing remarks, Chimamanda Adichie advocated for an uncorrupted judicial system and called on the NBA to leverage technology in judicial process and the administration of justice in the country.
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