ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the student movement and state-sponsored feminism in the period between 1986 and 1999. The students were vigorously opposed to the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAP) and the associated transition to civil rule program, which was equally aimed at perpetuating personal rule. The state-sponsored feminist organizations were pro-SAP, and also aimed at eliciting women's support for the respective self-succession bids of Ibrahim Babangida and Sani Abacha. The Better Life Program, launched in September 1987, was one of state-sponsored programs supposedly aimed at empowering the grassroots that the Babangida regime launched between 1985 and 1993. A Family Support Trust Fund was created by Decree No. 10 of 1995, to provide the funds for the implementation of the activities of the Family Support Program (FSP). The family economic advancement program was launched in 1996 to help in actualizing the FSP's commitment to the empowerment of Nigerian families through poverty alleviation.
