Women in Lagos Enjoy Free Passage At The Lekki Toll Gate For International Women's Day 2018

Today is International Women's Day, and to celebrate the day in Lagos, women who drove their cars gained free access at the Lekki toll gate, courtesy of Sunlight.

Read a little piece about the International Women's Day below:

The International Women's Day is celebrated on March 8 every year. It commemorates the movement for women's rights.

March 8 was suggested by the 1910 International Socialist Woman's Conference to become an International Woman's Day.

After women gained suffrage in Soviet Russia in 1917, March 8 became a national holiday there. The day was then predominantly celebrated by the socialist movement and communist countries until it was adopted in 1975 by the United Nations.