FG to establish special schools for married women
- Aisha Alhassan, minister of women affairs, has disclosed the federal government's agenda in educating the women nation wide
- The government agenda is not only for the woman who has abandoned their schools to get married but every woman
- Alhassan said that the education of female children is very important and because of that the leaders should encourage parents to send them to school
Aisha Alhassan, minister of women affairs, has said federal government would establish special schools for women who dropped out to get married.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Alhassan on Thursday, June 1, appealed to religious and traditional leaders to continue supporting ongoing efforts to boost the enrolment of the girl-child into schools nationwide.
''All women that married at early age will have the opportunity to continue with their education from their husbands houses.
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“The schools will be in two categories so as to avoid problems emanating from the establishment of the schools.
“The first category is for those who started their schooling but due to one reason or the other dropped out.
“The other category is for the Adult Literacy classes that will be established in all local governments to assist women attain certain literacy level.
“In the Adult literacy schools, the women will also be empowered with skills training during their lessons.
“The women will be trained how to make soap, local soft drink, candle, pomade, cake, local hair dressing, tailoring and other small businesses.”
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The minister told newsmen on Thursday in Katsina.Alhassan appealed to religious and traditional leaders to continue supporting ongoing efforts to boost the enrolment of the girl-child into schools nationwide.
The minister said that the education of female children was very important and because of that the leaders should encourage parents to send them to school.
Legit.ng recalls that the federal government had said it would establish an Information Communication Technology (ICT) University in the first quarter of 2017.
This was disclosed by the minister of communications, Adebayo Shittu on Monday, December 26 in Abuja.
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