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Ministers, organisations, advocates and supporters of the girl-child will celebrate International Women’s Day at an event designed to foster sustainable support and empowerment for the girl-child and related causes.

The Morgan Smart Development Foundation joined girls the world over, particularly in the Niger-Delta to commemorate this year’s International Day of the Girl-Child with the theme:  Girlforce: Unscripted And Unstoppable.

As part of events to mark 2019 international girl-child day, tagged, “Girl force ; unscripted, unstoppable, Coordinator, Pastor Bimbo Odukoya, PBO foundation coordinator , Mrs. Aderonke Oyelakin, the  has called for the  promotion of (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, STEM education amongst female students in secondary schools.

The Chairman of the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board, Hon. Wahab Alawiye-King, has described the statistics of out-of-school girls in some parts of the state as alarming. This is is as he called for urgent attention.

By Gabriel Ewepu The Country Director, Global Rights Nigeria, Abiodun Baiyewu, in this interview on commemoration of 2019 International Day of the Girl Child on October 11, raised concerns about the inadequate and obsolete nature of laws protecting the girl-child in Nigeria, and advocated for removal of Value Added Tax, VAT, on sanitary pads, hence […]