By Favour Nnabugwu

In the drive to achieve education for all by 2015, the Federal Government has marked the education of the girl-child as top priority with the aim of bridging the disparity of gender education in the country.

Minister of State for Education, Barr. Nyesom Wike, at the recent 12th Girls’ Education (GE) National Steering Committee Meeting in Abuja, said that government is determined to ensure parity in the country’s education system and equity and access have been chosen as priority areas in the Ministry’s four-year strategic plan.

Wike said for the country to achieve its targets in education and social sector development, there is need for stakeholders at federal, states, local government levels and the private sector to collaborate in order to actualise the goal.

The minister recalled that Nigerian government is committed to achieving the Millennium Development goals (MDG) 2- “Achieve Universal Primary and Junior Secondary Education” and (MDG) 3- “Eliminate gender disparities in education by 2015.”