[2] The NCW was a predecessor of the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs and Youth Development.
The venue chosen for the announcement was the inaugural Better Life Fair, held in Lagos in 1988.
The new Commission was thereby symbolically associated with the activity of the First Lady of Nigeria, Maryam Babangida, who had launched the Better Life for Rural Women Programme (BLP) in 1987.
To bring about the acceptance of women as full participants in every sphere of national development, with equal rights and corresponding duties.
To eliminate totally social and cultural practices tending to discriminate against and dehumanize womanhood.