Managing Director of Promasidor Nigeria Limited, Mr. Olivier Thiry has said that the 2016 edition of the annual TV quiz competition, Cowbellpedia Secondary School Mathematics TV Quiz show was aimed at encouraging the education of the girl child in Nigeria.
To give fillip to this goal, Thiry insisted that co-educational Secondary Schools should nominate the entries with a minimum of two girls for each category to represent such school.
“This is our own little way of encouraging the girl child to take interest in education especially the Science, Technology, Engineer and Mathematics,” he said.
Charles Nzuki who stood in for Ms. Jean Gough, the United Nations Children Educational, Scientific Fund, UNICEF representative in Nigeria at the finals of the competition last year, maintained that girls’ education needs higher priority and more investment from government and other stakeholders.
According to him, evidence has shown worldwide that the most marginalised child is a girl coming from the poorest, living in rural areas and with ethnic or linguistic background.
He reiterated UNICEF’s support increased access and improved quality in education in Nigeria through the Girls Education Project, Female Teachers Training, Early Grade Reading and Nomadic Education.
Nzuki maintained that evidence had shown that one year of secondary education for a girl correlates with as much as 25 per cent increase in wages later in life – wages that can help support children, a family and a future.
“We know that investing in education is perhaps the single best, most cost effective opportunity to break cycles of poverty once and for all,” he said.
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