The United Nations International Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, has called on government at all levels to provide free education and special treatment for the girl-child in Nigeria.
The UNICEF Education Officer, Katsina office, Mr. Saka Adebayo-Ibrahim made the call at a sensitization workshop organized for one hundred youths in Kano.
According to Adebayo-Ibrahim, the girl-child needs special treatment not only in schools, but anywhere they found themselves.
He said that if government provides most of the essential needs of female students, it would increase enrolment and retention of the girl-child in primary and secondary schools.
On the workshop, he said it was “aimed at mobilizing the youths to know their rights on government, especially in the area of providing them with free primary and secondary education and qualified teachers, especially in the rural areas.
He said the workshop also aims at guiding the youths on ways to approach political office holders on the need to fulfill their campaign promises as according to him, despite series of campaign
promises by politicians, especially on education, the sector is still moving backward in the North East and North West part of the country.
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