WHAT A MAN CAN DO, A WOMAN CAN DO TOO

WHAT A MAN CAN DO, A WOMAN CAN DO TOO

Years ago, I was to go from Maryland to Ikorodu. You know how they "load passengers", turn by turn. When I got there, the driver of the bus whose turn it was to load was a woman. A woman? I couldn't believe it. Why was a woman driving a bus? Can a woman drive a bus? Is her husband late? Are things that bad for her and her family? Doesn't she have any other choice? Why will a man let his wife drive a bus? Those were some of the thoughts on my mind that day. Well, I wasn't just going to trust her; no sleeping in the bus until I alighted; I watched every move she made: but guess what, that's about one of the best times I've used a commercial vehicle in Lagos. It could have been her passion; she did it! My hair has been barbed by a female and I've seen ladies to exceptional things worldwide. There are female presidents, female entrepreneurs, female inventors, female pilots, and many more great ladies, known and unknown, breaking records every day!

Women have continued to prove again and again that they can do what men can do. But why have we always thought that they couldn't? They have two eyes, two hands, two feet, and a brain like the men. They attend the same schools, write the same exams, do the same jobs, and some times, perform better than their male counterparts. So why restrict them in any way? And why do some of them also limit themselves and put a cap on what they are capable of achieving? That's why Malala Yousafzai is one of my heroes; when girls were being banned from attending school, the little girl insisted on going to school and advocated for education for women in her native town in Pakistan.

Is God against women? Does He see them differently? An emphatic no! Galatians 3:28 says, There is neither male nor female; we are all one in Christ Jesus. God said through Joel that He would pour out His Spirit on all flesh; and that both sons and daughters would prophesy. In the New Testament, Philip had four daughters that prophesied; but long before them, in the Old Testament, Deborah, was a prophetess and judge in Israel, and all the children of Israel, young and old, went to her for judgment.

The men are not to take a backseat, instead, both men and women must be given equal opportunities to work together without discrimination or bias for the advancement and development of our institutions, our states, our country and the world at large.

Inspired by Senator Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan who I thought would be the first elected female governor of Nigeria.