EducationAndWomen

    EDUCATION IS THE FUTURE According to the late Nelson Mandela said " Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world", let look at it this way, education is life transformation,open future for a collective construction of a society. UNICEF surveys showed that the population of out of school children showed that Nigeria is about 20 million children are out of school in Nigeria. However an estimated 258 million children and youth are out of school, according to UIS data for the school year, out of the 244 million children are 6 to 18, not in school, more than 40% or 98 million of them live in Sub-saharan Africa including Nigeria. According to the statistics India, Nigeria, and Pakistan have the highest figures for out of school children globally. But the insecurity, kidnapping of school children most parents are not disposed to sending their children to school. Many children may remain out of school as no fewer that 650 schools have remained shut ...

                                                                   The Power of Investing In Girls      This decision is a major step forward to ensure that girls have the same educational opportunities as boy. This is in part to child marriage with almost 3 in 10 girls marrying before the age of 18, the prevalence of early child bearing (having a child before the age of 18), if child marriages were ended, teenage pregnancies would be substantially reduced. The resulting economics benefit girls and for the country as a whole would substantial. Keeping girls in school would lead to major reductions in the prevalence of both child marriage and child bearing.       Providing adolescent girls with opportunities remain school is not only the right thing to do, it is also one of the...