Early Marriage, Insecurity Deny Girls Access To Education–Minister

Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Sa’id, has said aboriginal marriage, poorness and insecurity proceed to contradict millions of Nigerian girls entree to education, contempt ongoing nationalist efforts to beforehand inclusion and equity successful the sector.

Speaking astatine the closing of the Kano Girls’ Education Summit yesterday astatine the league hallway of the Dangote Business School successful BUK, Prof. Sa’id said these persistent challenges had near a important fig of girls incapable to scope their afloat potential, and called for renewed governmental committedness and equitable concern successful girls’ education.

The acme which was organised by Bridge Connect Africa Initiative (BCAI) successful collaboration with the authorities authorities and enactment from Malala Fund nether the Bridging Access to Girls’ Education(BAGE) project, aimed to supply a level geared towards commitments to supply equitable acquisition financing and work transportation for girls successful Kano State.

Represented by her peculiar adviser, technical, Umma Kulthum, the curate said, “The information punctual america that excessively galore girls successful Nigeria inactive look barriers that forestall them from learning.

Early marriage, poverty, insecurity, taste norms, and inadequate infrastructure proceed to contradict millions of our daughters the accidental to learn.

“We indispensable spell beyond rhetoric and perpetrate to targeted, equitable, and sustained concern successful girls’ education.”

She noted that nether President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Education Agenda, the national authorities was implementing policies that beforehand inclusivity, information and prime learning, including the World Bank–supported Adolescent Girls’ Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) task and the precocious launched LUMINAH 2030 programme aimed astatine educating and empowering 1 cardinal underserved girls by 2030.

“When a miss is educated, she is much apt to person healthier children, gain higher income, and assistance her household retired of poverty,” she added.

Representing Governor Abba Yusuf, the Deputy Governor of Kano State, Comrade Aminu Abdulsalam Gwarzo, reaffirmed the state’s committedness to acquisition —reforms, noting that Kano allocated 31 percent of its 2025 fund to acquisition the highest successful Nigeria.

He said the government’s declaration of a authorities of exigency connected acquisition successful 2024 had led to important improvements, including schoolhouse rehabilitation, recruitment of teachers, and the adoption of the Gender-Responsive Education Budgeting Framework developed by BCAI.

“This acme is much than a ceremonial event; it is simply a reaffirmation of our shared imaginativeness to guarantee that nary miss successful Kano is near down due to the fact that of poverty, distance, oregon taste limitations,” Gwarzo said.

In his remarks, BCAI’s Executive Secretary, Sani Muhammad, described the acme arsenic a milestone successful the state’s acquisition reform, praising the concern with the Malala Fund and the authorities authorities for advancing accountability and equity successful acquisition financing.