Nigerians, Unicef Remember Chibok Girls, Lament Damage to Girl-Child Education

Nigeria tomorrow marks the second anniversary of the abduction of about 276 female students of Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, with the failure to rescue them and government's seeming inability to do anything about it, and the devastating effect of insurgency particularly on the girl-child again coming to the fore.

The Minister of Women Affairs and Women Development, Aisha Jummai Al-Hassan at an educational summit with the theme 'Endangered Education,' held as part of 'Global Week of Action' in commemoration of the 2014 abduction lamented that girls' education particularly in the insurgency-ridden states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa had come under a serious threat.

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