Fostering inclusion for the Nigerian child | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News

Last Sunday was World Children’s Day. Unlike the Children’s Day celebration observed in Nigeria on May 29, every year, World Children’s Day is marked every November 20 as an international observance that United Nations member countries use to promote and celebrate children’s rights. Established by the UN in 1954, the theme of this year’s celebration, ‘Equality and Inclusion, for every child’, is particularly instructive for Nigerian children who suffer discrimination and exclusion.

If all these are not enough cause for worry about the plight of Nigerian children, UNESCO’s recent disclosure that the country now has 20 million out-of-school children has further underscored the problem’s magnitude. It is why all hands have to be on deck to save Nigeria’s underserved and under-represented children, including the female ones who get the short end of the stick.

Lagos has also prioritised girl-child education with various measures to ensure equitable learning like their male counterparts. For instance, professional development and classroom management techniques focus on encouraging girls to be leaders in and out of the classroom. EKOECEL also ensures gender equality outside the school by encouraging girls to practice leadership skills through participation in various co-curricular activities like drama, chess, the arts, and physical education.

While the overall best student in the NCEE conducted by the National Examinations Council scored 201 out of 210, Ajidagba Mariam Akanke, three pupils of Lagos public primary schools were just five points behind her. A compelling case of inclusion in Lagos State public primary schools is the case of a teen boy called Segun Borno, who was saved from the rigours of hawking perishable goods on the streets of Lagos by LASUBEB at one of its pupil enrollment road shows.

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