By Sidi A. Umar
Sokoto
The Sultanate Council Sokoto will, in collaboration with the Centre For Intellectual Services on Sokoto Caliphate, organise a one-day symposium on girl-child education.
This was contained in a statement issued by the chairman of the publicity committee of the planned symposium, Alhaji Labaran Lumu Dundaye, in Sokoto at the weekend.
According to the statement, the symposium is entitled: “Girl-child Education and Youths Empowerment in the Sokoto Caliphate: A Challenge to Contemporary Muslim Society.”’
The statement indicated that the symposium would hold on April 15, this year, at
the Auditorium of the Umaru Ali Shinkafi Polytechnic, Sokoto.
It added that an eight-man Local Organising Committee (LOC), chaired by Prof. Mukhtar Bunza of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, had already been set up.
In the same vein, Bunza had inaugurated three sub-committees, to ensure the successful conduct of the symposium.
The sub-committees included a sub-committee on technical, publicity and welfare, reception, as well as protocol.
Labaran quoted a relevant constitutional provision which clearly stipulated that every child, boy or girl had the right to education.
“Actually, the constitution even requires a free and compulsory education for children between the ages of six through to 15 years. Nonetheless, there are over 10 million children that are not receiving any form of training to help them better their lots in life.
“Of these 10 million children, the woman, or more accurately, the girl-child constitutes a sizeable chunk,” the immediate past NUJ chairman said.
