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...

Women: At the receiving end of violence    Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation, and the immediate and long term, physical, sexual, and mental consequences for women and girls can be devastating, including health. Gender based violence hinder national productivity, as it is occurring among people in the productive age group, who have to deal with its physical and psychological consequences. At least 155 countries have passed laws on domestic violence, and 140 have legislation on sexual harassment in the workshop (World Bank 2020)    80 million women, girls are victim of gender based violence (WARDC), according to the executive director of women advocate research and documentation centre, Dr. Abiola Akiyode Afolabi said “violence against women is a global act that has been on the increase and affects one of every three females”. The World Bank reports that 35% of females globally have been sexually or physically abused by their partner or non-p...

  photo credit: un.org AFRICA, AT THE CENTRE OF CLIMATE CHANGE     Climate change is one of the biggest challenges in our global community. Climate crisis is already hitting Africa the hardest, despite the continent contributing the least to cause it. Which is inappropriately experiencing the effects of the climate crisis.   Although climate change is affecting the whole continent, it’s not affecting all regions in the same way. The most unfair fact about the entire situation is that Africa is responsible for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions. When you consider that the richest 10% of the world’s population are responsible for over half of the carbon emissions. Yet, Africa is the most vulnerable region in the world to the changing climate. According to the (WHO), 1 in 3 people across Africa already face water scarcity. But by 2025 climate change could have made it even worse, with predictions that close to 230 million Africans will be facing water s...

                          photo credit:guardian.ng 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...

                                        photo credit:asiapacific.unwomen.org               CRISES DEFINING ADOLESCENT GIRLS        The sites of insecurity for adolescent girls, as well the ways in which they respond and continue to strive towards building safer communities for themselves and those around them. Adolescent girls experience crisis differently than their male peers and adult women. During a crisis, they are particularly vulnerable to violence and exploitation policy makers and the humanitarian community view adolescent girls as powerless and rarely consult them about decision that impact their lives for example, 60%   of the 13.2 million out of school children in Nigeria are girls.           The 2020 UN Develo...

                            EDUCATION AS A SOLUTION MULTIPLIER      The late Nelson Mandela once said ‘’ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’’. Let look at education in this way, it is a life transformation, open future and above all a collective construction of a society. UNICEF surveys showed that the population of out of school children in Nigeria had risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million and the highest in the world. Out of the 17 states in the country with the highest number of out of school children, 14 are in north.        According to Save the children in its report, more than 1000 children have been abducted in the country since January 2021 and August. Experts have further predicted that with the current level of insecurity in the country, the number of out of school ch...