Hundreds of Nigerian women protested in Abuja, the capital, on Monday to advocate for the "Special Seats Bill" which aims to create reserved seats for women in the country's parliament. This initiative seeks to address the significant underrepresentation of women in Nigerian politics, where only 4 female senators out of 109 and 16 women in the 360-member House of Representatives currently serve.

• The proposed bill would add one woman-only seat for both the House and the Senate in each of Nigeria's 36 states plus the Federal Capital Territory.
• Organized by figures like Dorothy Njemanze, over 1,000 demonstrators participated in a caravan to deliver signatures in support of the legislation to a House committee.
• Implementing the changes requires a constitutional amendment, needing approval from two-thirds of the National Assembly and 24 state legislatures, a difficult process that has seen similar attempts fail in the past.