Approaches to Reach and Teach the Most Marginalized Children in Nigeria: The Girl-Child Education

Abstract

Education is to be the right of every child universally including Nigeria,
without discrimination against any child based on whatever reason(s) and
none must be denied. However, it has been discovered that many girl-child in
Nigeria are at disadvantaged in comparison to their male counterpart.
Despite that policy has been formulated and series of initiatives are in place,
numerous of this target audience is yet to be reached. Hence this paper
examined critically the challenges facing girl-child education in Nigeria and
provided ways by which the nation can make head way towards the
achievement of Education for All and Millennium Development Goals by
2020 that the nation has set as a new target year.

Keywords: Girl-child, Education, Marginalized, Policy