NGO tasks Nigerian society on Girls’ Child Education, Medical Attention

Nigerian society has been tasked to give maximum priority to girls’ child education and medical care to save them from abject poverty and all forms of humiliation in the society to move the country forward.

This call was made by the speakers at a formal Inauguration and Award Ceremony of the Books, Eyes, Girls’ Support Foundation, organized by the Foundation in Abuja, Nigeria’s Capital, which themes: “The Implications of Girls’ Child Education to Nation Building.”

In his speech, Imam Rafee Owonla notes that, Girls’ child education if properly conducted can be used as one of the tools in addressing social ills in the Society.

“In Nigeria there are women who occupy and serve better at various positions because of the education society give them, our religion charges us with girls’ child education, because when you train a girl you are training a whole society, when you are educating a girl you are educating a whole nation,” Owonla noted.

The Nigerian Minister of Transportation, Mrs. Gbemisola Saraki, who was represented by Mr. Charles Nkata, has urged Nigerian government to make some new policies that will encourage girls’ child education to harness their maximum potentials in various capacities for the benefit of the country.

Mr. Charles Nkata, says, “When you train and enlighten your girl children well, they will produce better children in the future and this is the best way to have better Nigeria.”

Mr. Nkata, added that, “If there is deliberate policy in girls’ education, and training in various fields of endeavour you can be rest assured that you are going to get better Nigeria, ultimately a better Africa, and a better world.”

In his comment to the girls’ child education, ahead of the Lunching ceremony of the Foundation, a founder of Books, Eyes, Girls’ Foundation, and Head of Public and International Law Department, from Baze University, Abuja, Dr. Nuraen Dindi, has called on youths to inculcate reading culture and limit their concentration on various social media platforms to have quality education to benefit the society.

“Declining reading culture is one of the most unfortunate things in our educational system, our libraries are there and books are there but nobody to read them, even at home if you don’t force your child to recite Qur’an or read Bible they will not take it to do so, and the responsible for this crazy thing is the emergence of Digital means of communications,” Dindi stated.

The aim of the Foundation is to collaborate with other stakeholders to save out of schools children, especially girls, donating educational materials, and giving proper medical attention to girls’ eyes problems to enable them participate actively in acquiring quality education and health in the society.