The Presiding Shepherd of the Victory Christian Church, Abule Oshu, Lagos, Apostle Nkechi Anayo-Iloputaife, on Friday tasked women to be self reliant to contribute to the welfare of their families.
Iloputaife gave the task at the Church’s 2023 women summit, saying being self reliant would make women contribute to the needs of the family and foster family stability.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the summit, with the theme, “Resourceful Woman Pride of the Home”, was designed to instill business drive in the women for harmonious home growth.
The woman cleric, citing the biblical exploits of women such as Esther to the growth of their families and society, tasked the women to be bread winners to earn respect from their spouses and society.
She said that a resourceful woman would always be loved by her spouse unlike the ones who solely depend on the man for everything.
According to her, there are jobs assigned to the woman in the scriptures, including aiding the smooth running of the home, stressing that such jobs should never be over looked.
“Vocational trades such as cloth making, confectionary, soap making and others should be acquired and commercialized by the non-career woman to assist the man.
“Even the career person should also learn the skills of making those items as a fallback because job stability is no longer guaranteed.
‘It is an absurdity in the contemporary world for one not to be doing something to earn a living. Such over dependence brings disregard to the woman and can breed domestic violence that has become rampant in the society,” she said.
She stressed the need for women to form co-operative societies to aid them in accessing soft loans to support their trade, saying such facilities were lying fallow in places such as the Bank of Industry and others.
Also speaking at the event, a Resource Person to the programme, Pastor Solomon Azubuike, said that book keeping and proposal writing were key to businesses development.
Azubuike, who taught the women record and stock inventory keeping, said that the Church has a tradition of ensuring domestic peace and stability by empowering the women to support the home.
He decried the rise in cases of broken homes, which, he said, was alien to Africa.
“Therefore efforts should not be speared at ensuring peace in homes as the consequences of broken homes affect the children and society,” Azubuike said.
He said that the skills acquisition training for the women begun in 2021.
