By Sumaila Ogbaje
Mrs Linda Metchie, Wife of the President-General, Umueri Community, Anambra-East Local Government Area, has urged women to make their personal health needs an utmost priority.
Metchie gave the advice at a retreat organised by Women Initiative Global (WIG), GCUPS LIMITED and Inspiring Women Initiative (IWI) held at Umueri to mark the 2025 International Women’s Day Celebration.
This is contained in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday.
She described women as strong pillars of the family and society, and urged them to always see themselves as change agents, character molders, role models and pillars of support to their husbands and families.
According to her, this retreat is a veritable platform to educate us as women as well as enlighten us to take our personal health needs an utmost priority and desist from playing second fiddle in the society.
She pledged her continuous support to advancing the course of women in the communities especially the poor and the indigent ones.
She disclosed that with the support of her husband, Dr John Metchie, she had been able to empower women and children especially those in the grassroots educationally and otherwise.
She added that she would continue to engage women in the state and accelerate actions towards lifting them out of hunger, poverty and unemployment.
According to her, if a woman is adequately empowered then a nation has been adequately empowered.
She also commended the wife of the governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, for using her healthy living initiative to transform the lives of women in the state.
Metchie further lauded the efforts of the state government in transforming the health sector.
“The free antenatal services for pregnant women, free child delivery and all other free packages showed that the government of Prof. Charles Soludo holds women in very high esteem,” she said.
According to the statement, resource persons took turns to emphasise the need for healthy living standards and the necessity for women to not only live for their families but also for themselves as they must be alive to reap the fruits of their labour. (NAN)
