International conferences, summits or seminars have their usefulness and advantages. They provide a forum for reasoned discussions, and for positions to be taken on contemporary problems facing nation states....
International conferences, summits or seminars have their usefulness and advantages. They provide a forum for reasoned discussions, and for positions to be taken on contemporary problems facing nation states as well as focus the world’s attention on issues that affect humankind’s peace and well-being. But when they are held as a matter of routine and on issues that will not go away, there are the possibility and risk of calling such meetings window-dressing.
The recent Global Education Summit held in London, United Kingdom gives relevance to the fact that a well funded education sector would unlock development and grow the economy for the good of all in the country. In this context, fresh opportunity for a five-year pledge for leaders firm support to Global Partnership on Education’s was reached in the London Education Summit to help transform the education system in up to about 90 countries and territories around the world.
If there is one thing Nigerians wanted from President Buhari administration when they elected him into office in 2015 and returned him in 2019, it was to improve the poor standard of education. Today, the ugly state of affairs in the education sector is alarmingly disturbing particularly the case with the girl child where cultural practice of early marriage stops the girl child from going to school.
On its part, government should have a clear idea of the education sector’s catalogue of challenges and ensure a diligent handling of the issues. Again, given the audience at which President Buhari made the education pledge, one hopes that it should not end with the applause it received on the floor of the summit.
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