The emir made this known at a Women Conference organised by the Women Models and Mentors Foundation.
The theme of the event is, ‘The Right to participate’.
He said, ”What we are lacking today is mentorship. You don’t have to be a professor to mentor people.
“We should try as much as possible to impact knowledge to those behind us, especially those that require some tutelage and technical know how.
“Entrepreneurship is very key. I am passionate about it, especially, when it is an issue that relates to women.
“I am one of those blessed people that have girls as my children. I have four girls and a boy, so I can say I am a father of girls.
“We are encouraging young girls to go into entrepreneurship, especially those graduating from Islamic schools. We always tell them to combine the two education; western and Islamic education.
“It is not about getting a degree. A degree is just a sheet of paper, with the education that you have acquired. How have you applied what you studied?
”It is not about having multiple degrees, what have you done? What can you do with your hands? That is what matters today, not to be doing things that will not even help you in your own home.
“We should always try and encourage the young ones, especially women.”
In her welcome address, the WMM president, Bilkisu Ibrahim, said women are faced with greater barriers than men in social, political and economic spheres of lives.
”This inequality has manifested into denial of opportunities in all facets of life.
”The importance of having women’s voices in socio-economic and political leadership positions cannot be overemphasised because they constitute most of the population.”
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