President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerian kids again yesterday that his government will work hard to make sure they have a good future.
In a message of goodwill he gave yesterday in Abuja for Children’s Day 2022, he said that the government would make sure that every child could go to school.
The President said that he understood the importance of education to the growth of every country and promised to make a big change in the number of children who are not in school.
He said that the education of Nigerian children would remain a top priority for the current government, but that other important issues like healthcare, protection from harm, drugs, cults, trafficking, and abuse of children, and domestic violence were also getting the attention they needed.
President Buhari said that a Nigerian child deserves the best and a safe country where he or she can grow up, make friends, interact, and travel freely, as well as become a successful leader in many fields.
“With our investments in infrastructure, youth development, education, Information, and Communication Technology (ICT), digital economy, culture, arts, and entertainment over the last seven years, I believe we are laying a solid foundation for a better quality of life for future generations in the country,” the Nigerian leader said.
This happened after a wide range of children asked security agencies to make schools safer.
The children spoke yesterday in Abuja at the end of a two-day capacity building training put on by Save the Children International (SCI) for state children’s parliaments and girl ambassadors from the implementing states of Benue, Borno, Cross River, Gombe, Jigawa, Katsina, and Yobe, as well as members of the Child Rights Advocacy Club of GJSS Gwagwalada, in the Federal Capital Territory. They were sad that more than 7,000 girls and (FCT).
Etukudo Utibe Abasi, who is the Girl Child Champion of SCI, said that the State of Nigerian Girls Report showed that 22.2% of young females aged 15–19 were married or in unions, while no males were in such unions. This shows that early and forced child marriage affects a lot of women and girls.
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