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.