A fresh attention has been drawn to the urgent need to redress the despairing state of girl-child education and, by extension, the miserable living condition in Northern Nigeria. This followed the ...
A fresh attention has been drawn to the urgent need to redress the despairing state of girl-child education and, by extension, the miserable living condition in Northern Nigeria. This followed the launch by the World Bank of a credit facility to improve secondary education opportunities and empowerment for adolescent girls in targeted areas. The beneficiary states are Kano, Kebbi, Kaduna, Katsina, Borno, and Plateau. Only Ekiti State, in the South-West, is outside the northern region.
, attested to this when she posited that a typical girl’s life in Northern Nigeria “revolves around marriage and children.” It is estimated over 50 per cent of girls between ages 18 and 20 were given out in marriage in Northern Nigeria, stressing that what makes it more worrisome is that 75 per cent of them can neither read nor write.
This must change. According to the World’s Women 2015 report, published every five years, 781 million adults over the age of 15 are illiterate; more than 496 million of them are women. EDUCELEB, an education advocacy group, in a 2018 report, observed that there is a national average of 59.3 per cent female literacy rate for Nigerians between 15 and 24 years old. On a geopolitical basis, the survey further notes that the South-East leads with 95.
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