UNESCO Urged
To Step Up Intervention In Africa
Godwin Ukah,
Abuja
UNESCO
has been called upon to step up its intervention programmes in
the development of education in Africa.
The Nigerian Minister of State for Education, Hajiya Aishatu
Dukku made the call at the Plenary Ministerial Forum of the 35th
General Conference of UNESCO in Paris, France.
She said that
the intervention of UNESCO in governance will afford Africa to
give Education a priority position in budgetary allocation,
capable of moving the sector forward.
Hajiya Dukku also called on UNESCO to work on women’s
empowerment and gender equality.
The Minister stressed that the world agency must take drastic
strategies in Africa if the continent is to achieve Women’s
empowerment and gender equality.
She warned that failure of the intervention, Africa was not
likely to achieve the Millennium Development Goals-two and
–three.
According to Hajiya Dukku, ’’there is the need to improve
data acquisition in sub Saharan Africa to change the slow
progress observed in the region”’.
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