EDUCATION IN CRISIS
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EDUCATION IN CRISIS
When we know the important of
educating a girl child, then we will know how it improves health, livelihoods and contribute to social
stability and economic growth. When girls are strong, healthy and educated, they change their communities and
transform their societies. But girls’ education has consistently been at
risk, and while strides have been made in recent years, insecurity have reverse
almost all the gains made toward securing education.
As a result of insecurity and violence, safe access to school is not
guaranteed and girls who miss school because of crisis are less likely to
return. Insecurity introduces women and girls to a very real fear that their
safety and human rights will be the last priority amid the violence. The rising
level of insecurity in the country, especially the girl child has taken a toll
in the sector with increased cases of kidnapping of school girls has increased
the numbers of out of school children.
Attacks on schools, abductions and killings of school children
demonstrate an absolute disregards for the life and right to education,
following the attacks on school especially the girls.
On April 14, 2014: 276 Christian
female students were kidnapped from government girls secondary school at chibok
in Borno state. 57 escaped, seven years after the initial kidnapping, over 100
of the girls are still missing.
February 19, 2018: barely four
years after the attack on chibok, the insurgents took their onslaught to Yobe,
the minister of information and culture, Lai Mohammed confirmed that 110
students were kidnapped after Boko haram invaded the government girls science
technical school in Dapachi, although most of the students have reunited with
their families on march 21, 2018 by their abductors Leah Sharibu is yet to be
freed by gunmen.
December 11, 2020: Bandits took 303
students of government science secondary school, Kankara in Katsina. A week
after the students were taken into captivity, their abductors released them
December 19, 2020: less than two
days after the kidnapped Kankara students’ released, some gunmen abducted more
than 80 islamic school students in the same, Katsina state. This time, the
pupil were quickly rescued by security forces after a fierce gun battle.
February 17, 2021: Bandits abduct
another 41 in kangara Niger state, capturing students, teachers and their
family members from the school. 27 students were coming the abductees.
February 26, 2021: 317 female
abducted in Zamfara state, less than 10days after the bandits’ raided kagara,
gunmen kidnapped 317 school girls from government girls science secondary
school in Zamafara
April 13, 2022: Bandits have
abducted five students of the college of health science and technology in Tsafe
area of Zamfara state
Investing in girls’ education
transform communities, countries and the entire world. Girls who receive an
education are less likely to marry young and more likely to lead to healthy and
productive lives
The World Bank says the federal
government can achieve its target of lifting 100 million Nigerians out of
poverty but such an ambitious goal wont succeeded without the execution of
policies to keep adolescent girls in school.
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