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