Nigeria to amend UBE Act to allow free girl-child education

As part of its activities to mark the 2021 International Women’s Day titled “Choose to Challenge,” Nigeria’s House of Representatives has hinted at a plan to amend the Universal Basic Education Act (2004) to accommodate free education for the girl child up to the senior secondary school level.

The House delivered this hint during a meeting of its Committees on Women in Parliament and Universal Basic Education (UBE) with the Policy and Legal Advocacy Centre (PLAC) and the Malala Fund on Monday in Abuja.

Chairman, House Committee on Women in Parliament, Rep. Taiwo Oluga who made the disclosure on free education for the girl child said legislative processes were already in progress to realize the objective in earnest.

With a female population of 100 million out of about 200 million Nigerians, there is a definite need to give the female gender a greater opportunity than they have so far been given to contribute to national development.

All of us at Teens Going For Gold Network look forward to the successful amendment of the UBE Act to allow free education for the girl child as proposed. It is a worthy course of action for the development of the Nigerian as well as other African educational and economic sectors.