Girl’s Education In View -By Raheenatu Ibrahim Abdullahi

A significant function of the education of the girl-child in Nigeria is that it offers her the opportunity to chart her destiny with the skills and information she acquired from basic education up to tertiary education, the girl-child is provided with diverse basic knowledge, skills, and training which contributes to national development.

An educated girl child can only grows through a literate woman who has a greater chance of breaking the cycle of social vices by installing good knowledge to her daughter. No society can develop without a help of lady so why are we denying our girl children a right to education? Thus giving a girl child education can help to reduce the menaces bedevilling this great country because they can be able to impacts good knowledge to their children if they get married.

Education offers the girl’s child the necessary skills and information needed to excel in a chosen career in near future . Hence, a girl who is educated can grow to become a teacher, architect, doctor, computer scientist, lawyer and pharmacist, among other things. And by giving our girls a right to education we can be able to right the wrongs in our society.

Education is not just limited to a western or religious education but a life orientation. With cocksure I can say If we want our future to be full of joy, let’s educate every girl in our society. Because I came to terms in terms to believed that girls education is a way to nation building. Perhaps, this is a time to give our girls a chance to explore their potentials through quality education.

Neelam Saxena Chandra reminds us that ” If you think that educating your girl is enough for her to tackle the boundaries of tradition, then you are wrong. You have to ensure that not only you empower her with education, but also make her strong enough to resist the evils of societal pressure under which she often buckles. Her life and honour are far more important than “What will people say?” A little emotional support from the parents can make the life of a daughter abused by her in-laws beautiful.” Yes, is undoubtedly true that, we educate women because it is smart. We educate women because it changes the world.

However, this is a called to Nigerian government to create modernize strategy in preventing all sorts of women related problems such as sexual harassment, gender equality among others. And also to the Ministries responsible for women affairs exercise should perform their duties as due by creating enabling environment for girl’s child education for a better Nigeria of our dreams.

Desmond Tutu once told us that “If we are going to see real development in the world then our best investment is WOMEN!” I concur this narration because When women are educated, our country become stronger, greater and more prosperous. Girl’s child education is vary essential and a must in our contemporary since ignorance is the worst enemy.

For religious sect, please do endeavour not to ban girl’s child education by criticising it rather create an atmosphere where the importance of girl education is going to be placed on board. And also consider the importance of girl child education by creating awareness on the imperative of girl’s education.

There is an adage that says, “although the clay had been moulded into a port it was yet to pass through the fire “ food for thought!!!

Lastly, I called on to our parents to try their possible best in seeing that they instill a very good education to our girl children In order to have a morally sound society.

Raheenatu Ibrahim
raheenertibrahim@gmail.com

Writes from the Department of Mass Communication, Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi, Bauchi state.