Education is a vital tool for empowerment that allows meaningful contributions to society. According to UNICEF, girls' education does not only bring the immediate benefit of empowering girls, but is seen as the best investment in a country's development.
Education helps girls to develop essential life skills including self confidence, the ability to participate effectively in society and protect themselves from HIV/ AIDS and other sexual exploitations. UNICEF further asserts that girls' education also helps in cutting children and maternal mortality rates, contributing to national wealth and controlling disease and health status.
Children of educated women are likely to go to school. Consequently, this has exponential positive effects on education and poverty education for generations to come. One very important aim of every family is to raise healthy and productive individuals who will contribute meaningfully to society.
This can be achieved through the education of the girl-child who is the mother of tomorrow

A woman is considered as a man's property or pleasure object. She is also considered as a 'machine' meant for producing children. This situation has resulted in unfair treatment of women especially with regards to education.
      The average rural Nigerian parent would rather invest in the education of the son rather than the daughter further proves that gender inequality in Nigeria is promoted by religious and communal customs. Young girls particularly in Northern Nigeria are denied the benefit of education. This has grave consequences for both the individual and the society at large.

Today’s girls are tomorrow’s women; the differential treatment of girls and boys can hardly be separated from the preferential treatment of men to women in our society.
Being born and growing up as a girl in a developing society like Nigeria is almost like a curse due to ignominy treatment received from the family, the school and the society at large. The cumulative effects of these discriminatory, exploitative and unjust treatments have had profound negative.
A girl child must be valued

Girls need a safe and supportive environment, free from abuse, with separate and healthy toilet facilities, safe drinking water, equal attention with boys and a gender sensitive curriculum.
The unique and far-reaching benefits of educating the girl-child include the proven fact that educating her is the best investment for societal development. The short and long term benefits to girls are based on the evidence that educated girls develop essential life skills, including self confidence, the ability to participate effectively in society and protect themselves from HIV/AIDS infection, sexual exploitation and pressures for early marriage and childbirth.

A womancan always be,who she wants to be

too good,,,,i overheard a woman saying "politics is not meant for women" today,,,i just couldn't sit down and agree to that,,and then let her go back with that same mentality,,,,,,i had to meet her,,talk to her,,giving her reasons why a woman can always go into politics and any other works of life
uhumm,guess what?? she accepted everything i said,believed it,,,,and the next thing she said was,,,IT IS TRUE,,A WOMAN CAN BECOME ANYTHING SHE WANTS TO,,and i concluded with,,all she needs is PLANNING.
She was pleased
so was i

Anything for the GIRLS!!!

YAYYYYY!!!!
Actually preparing my write up and other information,,am taking to Ojims college,to speak to their girls for the second time.
and if you want me to do same for you,anywhere,anytime,,,am always here
thanks to you all

EDUCAET A GIRL CHILD TODAY

In the past, education has not necessarily been a priority for the girl-child because of cultural beliefs, poverty and so on. It is believed that the place of the girl-child is in her husband’s house. The male child was considered to be superior to the gild-child in many aspects especially education and that is why in most cases; only the male child had access to education. Unfortunately, many people still hold unto this disparity between the female and the male gender.
Other causes for the negligence of the girl-child education could be attributed to parent’s unwillingness to send the girl-child to school. Some parents feel it is a waste to educate the girl-child because she would one day be married to someone else. Even when they have the means to educate her, they would always refrain from doing so.
Ignorance and illiteracy of the parents also account greatly for the negligence of the girl-child education. When the parents are illiterate and ignorant of the western education, they would find no reason why the girl-child should be given equal right with the boy-child. This is because their mentality and attitude is been influenced by what they see around them and the ancient beliefs.
In a situation where the parents are poor, they would always choose to use the little resources to take the boy-child to school and allow the girl-child to either hawk or engage in other activities. The question is,
why this disparity between the boy-child and the girl-child?
The girl-child also needs to be educated to acquire knowledge and skills needed to advance her status – knowledge for social interaction, self improvement and status advancement. The girl-child education also prepares her to face the reality in the society and teaches her to be a good wife and mother.
Education would also help the girl-child to develop civic sense and learn to respect, love her fellow human beings and to be a good and patriotic citizen. It will also make her to think, question and judge independently.
By Wubon Hebrews Isaac,,,culled from daily independence