Education
Don Makes Case For Girl-Child Education
A lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Mrs Obraori Peters Adiela has emphasised the need for special attention to be paid to Girl-Child education.
Mrs Obraori Peters Adiela, who was speaking at a seminar on the importance of Girl-Child education in Port Harcourt, recently frowned at a situation where some girls are forced to be married to men who are old enough to be their grandfathers.
This, she said, automatically denies the girl-child the right of going to school, adding that their education is therefore disrupted, while they end up as illiterates.
According to her, approximately about 70 million young women these days are married before the age of 18 noting that 30 per cent of school age girls drop out of school having already begun child bearing at an early age.
She frowned at a situation where some girl children are persuaded to studying courses for home keeping, home economics and home management, catering, fashion and design.
She urged parents not to regard the training of the girl-child as bad investment as it would lead to uninformed mind and they would be dumb in national and international issues.
She said the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides the first international recognition of the right to education when it stated that, “everyone has the right to education”.
She emphasised that the girl-child right to education is not only an economic right but also a social and cultural as well as a civil and political right since people cannot fully realise their freedom without education.
“Education for the girl-child just as any other child is generally considered to be one of the core rights and as the basis for achieving other rights”, she explained.
Statistical monitoring of education according to her, reveal that the national literacy rate for female is only 56 per cent as compared to 72 per cent for male.
She argued that if the girl-child is given the right to good and quality education, there is no way a child below the age of 18 years will be married.
She appealed to government to pay more attention to the education of the girl child as well as make free and compulsory education available to them.
She advised on flexibility in the educational policies that would enable efficient and progressive changes to respond to girl-child educational needs.
She expressed appreciation to the Rivers State Government that has made education free in the primary and secondary schools urging other state governments to emulate the gesture.
Eunice Choko-Kayode
The River State Commissioner for Education, Dr Peters Nwagor has called on media practitioners in Rivers State to deploy their various communication platforms toward promoting government programmes and policies aimed at achieving sustainable development in the education sector. Dr. Nwagor made the appeal when members of the Etche Ethnic Practicing Journalists (EEPJ) paid him a courtesy visit in Office in Port Harcourt. The Commissioner emphasized the strategic role of the media in shaping public perception, promoting government initiatives, and supporting policies capable of improving the quality of education and human capital development in the state. According to him, constructive media engagement remains essential in creating public awareness on educational reforms, students’ welfare, infrastructural improvements, and other interventions being implemented by the state government. Speaking on the recent appro
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