UNESCO: 30% Of School Age Nigerian Girls Married

The United Nation Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has said 30 percent of Nigerian girls between the age of 15 and 19 are currently married.

The UNESCO added that only 14 per cent of girls from low-class families in the country completed primary school, while only 27 per cent of boys did so.

The United Nations agency gave these statistics in a release signed by its Communication and Information Sector Officer, Yachat Nuhu, ahead of the inauguration of the Nigeria 2017/2018 Global Education Monitoring Report meant to call the attention of the Federal Government to its responsibility of providing universal quality education for boys and girls.

“The attendance rate among three to four years old is over 80 per cent for richest children and no more than 10 per cent for the poorest. There are no regulations of formal and informal private tutoring, which the report finds, can exacerbate inequality in education, and damage learning if teachers are tutoring their same students after class.”

A statement by Senior Programme Specialist of the UNESCO Regional Office for West Africa, in Abuja, Saidou Jallow, yesterday, said that the 2017/18 GEM report will be launched in Abuja, today.

Jallow explained that the report underscores the importance of accountability in addressing gaps and inequalities, explaining that,  it highlights the responsibility of governments to provide universal quality education and that accountability is indispensable in achieving this goal.

Also, the report “warns that disproportionate blame on any one actor for systemic educational problems can have serious negative side effects, widening inequality and damaging learning.”

Since accountability starts with governments, the report emphasised the need for government to urgently strengthen regulations for all education providers-public and private-accompanied with sanctions for those not respecting standards.

It also called on government to make the right to education justiciable.





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