Nonprofit Leader Simbiyat Folorunsho Introduces Girlity Foundation to Advance Gender Development in Nigeria

November 23, 2023

At a time when Nigerian girls face growing social, economic, and educational challenges, the newly launched Girlity Foundation is stepping in to provide the tools, confidence, and mentorship they need to thrive.

The foundation was unveiled at the Girlity Conference 1.0, hosted at the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The event brought together students from nine secondary schools, both public and private, for a day of inspiring conversations under the theme “Be That Girl: Empowering Girls for a Sustainable Future.”

Through thought-provoking sessions on self-discovery, health awareness, personal development, and drug abuse prevention, speakers including Dr. Hadiza Gana Mohammed, Tolulope Makinwa, Charity T. Wanenosom, and Girlity’s founder, Simbiyat Natalie Folorunsho, urged girls to embrace their potential and defy limitations.

Beyond the fanfare of its launch, Girlity Foundation represents a lifeline for many young girls, particularly in underserved communities. With initiatives like the Girlity Self-Development Initiative (GSDI)—which has already impacted more than 400 students—the foundation is nurturing leadership, resilience, and ambition in girls who might otherwise be left behind.

In a society where gender inequality, early marriage, and limited access to mentorship still hold many girls back, Girlity’s programs help them envision brighter futures and give them practical skills to achieve their goals.

The Visionary Behind the Movement

Founder Simbiyat Folorunsho, a clinical psychologist and educationist, brings her professional expertise and passion for gender equity into the work. She believes that when a girl is empowered, entire communities benefit:

> “Every girl who discovers her worth and pursues her purpose is not just changing her own life, but also rewriting the story of her family and society,” she emphasized at the conference.

By creating platforms for girls to learn, lead, and speak up, the Girlity Foundation is not only investing in individuals—it is shaping the next generation of Nigerian leaders, innovators, and change-makers.

🌿 The Beauty in My Scar: Finding God’s Message in Your Mess By FEMI OYEWALE

*WHAT MORE DOES MALAMI WANT FROM NIGERIA? 

By Ali Isah

Mallam Abubakar Malami is not a happy man, he has never been happy. He is always moody, and irritating. He lacks a senile moment.

The reasons are not farfetched, they are certainly not from anything external, but basically from his internal self inflicted self-centered conflicts, a self-induced intention malady, which comes with very irritating symptoms.

Most time those suffering from this incurable affliction are always against himself.

For a man who came into office with nothing and as nothing but rose, not by any ding of personal positive efforts, but became powerful through deceit and satanic mechanization during the Buhari government,Mallam Malami has long overstayed as a freeman, he should be under lock and key by now.

This is so because at that time, Mallam Malami carried out the supervision of so many poor, illfated reforms which not only further impoverished the residents of the country, but ended off making nothing good, but only enough to make history as not just the worst AGF but the most undignified after Michael Aondoakaa.

A crafty and self delusional person, who has been serially caught in his own pit and guile, and obviously in the net of his personal mischief, he ran head on into a stronger, more formidable force, in his last attempt, the peoples’ force.

His last outing to Kebbi was not too good, he failed, a self distraught.

His strategic intention was to overwhelm the people in a show of arbitrary force and unwarranted violence, through the use of bandits and criminal elements, he wanted to physically torment the peace of the people, and compromise their safety, and that of their properties. He wanted to tell his co-travelers in ADC that he controls a stronger and more formidable warchest, he misled himself into thinking that he is in charge.

If his scheme had succeeded, he would, like a chimpanzee, beat his chest in self approval, and tell the world that he is prepared to deploy the cannon of death at any opposition during the 2027 election.

Alas! He lost out to the superior force of the people of Kebbi State. He has tried to decorate and coverup what has happened with lies; his usual character, playing the victim, in an attempted damage assessment but the rest is history. The truth is already in public domain.

He thought he has the monopoly of physical and political violence and hate, he was mistaken, the people and the law are always ahead.

So, he could not believe what confronted him, and his mischievous, poorly mobilized miscreants and urchins. The people were resolute against him.

They spoke unanimously and strongly. They felt that, that was one violence too many. They were agreed that no single person, not even a Mallam Abubakar Malami, has the monopoly of vices and violence.

They came out in their numbers to tell him that never again should Mallam Malami attempt to ride on the sensibilities and goodwill of the people of Kebbi State. It was a clear message that, ‘Enough is Enough.’

The language was his but the singer was different, a more dynamic, sagacious, people-oriented crowd of patriotic and passionate nation builders, determined and willing to make the needful sacrifice to entrench good governance and ensure the delivery of the dividends of democracy as against the manipulation of a self seeking individual, whom Mallam Malami represents.

Indeed, Malami has had it up to the peoples’ throat, the have lost confidence in him and his corrupt selfish leadership.

This, to them is a Renaissance, a people come together under shared value and new narratives. They recalled that it was Mallam Malami that was a voice of imbalance in previous years, when instead of attracting developments and the dividends of democracy in his hay days to his people consistently embarked on divisive politics and only embroiled himself in endless controversies, which obviously did not align with the greater good, but was always ingratiating his personal interest, and ego.

The question has always been, ‘ What are the intentions of Mallam Abubakar Malami? Is he and will he ever be genuinely interested in serving Nigeria or is he driven by his primordial selfish ambition?

This posers are important considering Mallam Malami’s antecedents.

For one, Mallam Malami throughout his romance with power never prioritized the welfare of even his immediate constituency; the people of Kebbi State, neither did he ever pretend to address their pressing challenges.
Malami has never demonstrated leadership, statesmanship, nor the desire to see a stable, and prosperous future for the country. So what is new now?

Mallam Malami diverted the loot that was recovered, and also stopped those cases that are against his allies, including individuals such as, a former Senate President Bukola Saraki, and his contemporary the ex-Aviation Minister Stella Oduah.

A highly unprofessional and biased individual, Mallam Malami is presently encumbered about with several corruption and abuse of office cases, which are before the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offence Commission (ICPC).

Malami was involved in the questionable deal of $496 million settlement with Global Steel Company Limited and National Iron Ore Mining Company Commission.

It is this same sudden redeemer, that made an illegitimate payment of $418 million to consultants who claimed to have facilitated Paris Club Refunds to States.

Malami it was that also unpatriotically and selfishly misled the Federal Government of Nigeria into paying a compensation of $200 million to Sunrise Power over the Mambilla Power Project, despite lacking Presidential clearance.

A questionable character, who is unfit for any public office, Mallam Malami stock in trade is to consistently abuse his office, as it was with the undue interference into several corrupt cases, and various attempts in many cases to enter a nolle prosqui case for many of them.

He was involved in several underhand dealings and clear cases of favouritism.

A man without qualms, he lacks respect for state institutions, law and order and any form of rules, blatantly breaching Covid-19 Protocols by vicariously and tacitly sponsoring and allowing the wedding of his son during the Covid-19 era, because he believe in the misuse of power.

A highly confused and corrupt mind, he played leading role in the attempted reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, the former disgraced and dismissed Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team.

It is unfortunate that this is the character that is on this new voyage of misguided self discovery.

Again we are compelled to ask, what does he want from Nigeria again?

Mallam Abubakar Malami should allow the people of Kebbi, and indeed all Nigerians, to have their peace. He lacks the moral integrity, transparency, and accountability, especially considering his various involvement in corruption and misuse and abuse of office, to the extent that even the NJC passed a lack of confidence on his performance as a public officer.
There is nothing in Government House for him to find.

Isah wrote this piece from Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State.