NAN – The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has called on relevant authorities and stakeholders to ensure the enforcement of girlchild’s rights to education in Nigeria.
This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Ayo Adewuyi, the Media Adviser to the President’s wife, in Abuja on Friday.
The statement stated that Jonathan made the call at a dinner organised by Northern Women Progressive Initiative on Thursday in honour of the immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Aloma Mukhtar.
She said that societal development could be guaranteed if female children were given equal rights and access to education.
According to her, the former chief justice by achievements underscored the importance of girlchild education.
Jonathan said, “She is a testimony of the adage that says ‘when you educate a woman, you educate a nation’.
“It is, therefore, clear to all that it is education that has made our celebrant of today to get to the peak of her spotless judicial career successfully.
“It is education that made her a lady of strong character; it is education that made her morally upright.
“Let me restate my call for legislative instruments for the right of the girlchild to education.”
