HANNATU Fika, Executive Secretary, Federal Government Staff Housing Loans Board (FGSHLB) has advised career women to balance their home and work life schedules.

She added that they should also learn to be loving and submissive to their husbands in order to get maximum home support in their pursuit for national growth.

Fika gave the advice on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.

She said career women would always find it difficult to manage both the home and the work  without the love and support of their husbands.

“In the office I am the ES; that is the CEO of Federal Government Staff Housing Loan Board and at home, am a wife and a mother to my children.

“I have understanding and supportive bosses and at home I have a husband who understands the value of a working class wife and he knows that over the years the contribution of women to governance issues has increased.

“My husband has given me tremendous support to make me succeed both in the office and at home.

“In most cases the women who are up there find it difficult in to manage the home sector and the office sector. This is why as a Nigerian woman, I want to appeal to our husbands to understand the contribution of women to governance issues and learn to support them.”

She, however, advised women to device a way of managing the home and the office so that one would not affect the other.

“Women need to device a management strategy of combining the two sectors; that is the office sector and the home sector.

She noted that in time past women do not work, especially if their husbands are rich and can provide everything.

“But today, we are not talking about husband being able to provide but we are talking about the fact that we went to school and mostly we beat the boys in the classroom. So, why should we not contribute to the growth of this country,” she said.

Fika appealed to women to first of all settle the needs of their husbands so that they would function well in their place of work.

“I appeal to my sisters who are in the executive level to try as much as possible to address the needs of our husbands so that they will allow us participate maximally to what we are doing,” she said. (NAN)

– Apr. 2, 2019 @ 15:45 GMT |