Nigeria: Olabisi Kolawole - With Gender-Sensitive Officers Now At the Helm, Women Can Attain Any Height in Police

Friday, April 22, 2016 6:31 AM | Anonymous

The police have traditionally been regarded as men's profession. In the Nigeria Police, no woman had held the post of national spokesman since the unification of the various municipal and regional police organisations to form the national police in the 1960s, until August 28 last year. That was when Olabisi Kolawole was appointed Force Public Relations Officer by Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase. How does it feel to be Nigeria's first female FPRO, to manage the image of an organisation dominated by men? Yemi Akinsuyi, in this report, brings focus to the experiences of Kolawole 

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