News from IARA – AllAfrica.com: By Vincent Egunyanga Benin — Wife of the Edo State governor, Mrs. Iara Oshiomhole, has assured that the state would always give priority to girl-child education as educating the girl child is similar to educating the nation. Mrs Oshiomhole gave the assurance yesterday at the 2015 edition of the Nigerian [...]
News from Premium Times: Related News Bukar Usman, retired civil servant, history, language and folklore buff, has already established himself as an intellectual and a prolific writer of note with the dozens of books he has written over the last two decades. As someone who has decided to dig into his roots and project the [...]
News from GhanaWeb: Regional News of Monday, 8 September 2014 Source: GNA Email this Share This Print This Comments (2)<……………. continues on GhanaWeb >>> Read the full article . Related News: . News from The Standard Digital News: Education is as an art of learning new skills, acquiring new ideas and a process of attaining [...]
News from Zambia Daily Mail: EDUCATION is very important for every child whether boy or girl. It is, therefore, sad that some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl-child.An African proverb says, “If we educate a boy, we educate one person. If we educate a girl, we educate a family and a whole [...]
News from Nigerian Tribune: THE Obasanjo Foundation has appealed to Jigawa State government and security agencies to enhance security of girl-child education in Jigawa, as the Foundation is set to take over female schools in the state, this month. This was disclosed by the director on strategic partnership, focusing on girl-child education, Madam Susan Mensah, [...]
News from New Vision: Mpabulungi gives tailoring lessons to teenagers at her home in Jinja. Photos by George Bita Every year New Vision, in its Woman Achiever Awards, recognises the unsung heroines, those women who have gone an extra mile to improve the conditions in their communities. In the ninth edition, New Vision, in [...]
News from THISDAY Live: Chibok school girls Plans counselling centres for parents, abducted girls Damilola Oyedele in AbujaThe federal government has expressed regret that the abduction of the female students of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, may erode some of the gains made in promoting girl-child education and balancing the gender gap in [...]
News from Leadership Newspapers: Aregbesola Highlights Danger Of Boko Haram To Girl-Child Education Abdullahi Olesin — May 14, 2014 Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has alerted the nation of the danger which Boko Haram campaign portends for education, especially the girl- child education. Aregbesola, who condemned the campaign by the Boko Haram against education and [...]
News from AllAfrica.com: THE horrors of over 234 girls kidnapped from their hostel in Chibok three weeks ago cannot be put into words. Every second gone confirms the worst fears of parents. Even the far removed person on the streets worries about the security of his children. But no fear can be as real as [...]
News from Leadership Newspapers: Borno Abduction: A Bad Omen For Girl-Child Education In The North – Group NAN — April 22, 2014 A Non-governmental organisation, Girl-Child Rights Awareness Initiative, on Tuesday described the abduction of school girls in Borno as a bad omen for girl-child education in Northern Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) [...]
