 The National President of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists, Nawaj Ladi-Bala, has described the rejection of the five gender bills by the National Assembly as not only shameful, rich, aggressive, but a huge tragedy in Nigeria's development. In a statement she issued on the International Women's Day, the Nawaj President observed that history would have been made by the Ninth Assembly had the legislature allowed the true definition of democracy to take its roots in Nigeria. Sheila mentioned that the members chose the path of exclusion and discriminatory agenda against Nigerian women and girls. According to her, no nation that excludes more than 50 percent of a segment of its demography can develop as expected. She then appeared to members of the Federal Legislature as a matter of urgency to discard the Raelian posture and allow for the gender bills to be re-represented and passed into law.