NAN Partners UNESCO To Educate 60, 000 women in Nigeria through e-learning
NAN Partners UNESCO To Educate 60, 000 women in Nigeria through e-learning
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) is partnering with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to educate 60, 000 Nigerian women through e-learning.
Rokhaya Diawara, UNESCO Programme Specialist on Education, said this when a delegation from the organisation paid a courtesy visit to the Managing Director of NAN, Mr Ima Niboro.
Diawara said the organisation was set to reach these women using television to broadcast because of its impact on the society.
She said that NAN was most appropriate to work with because of its wide reach.
Subject areas to be covered are: Basic Science, Mathematics and Computer.
According to her, the organisation has employed the services of experts from Dakar, Senegal, to help in the implementation of the programme.
She also said that the programme had been implemented in Senegal where it recorded huge success.
Niboro, in his response, commended UNESCO for its giant strides in ensuring education for women in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
Represented by the Executive Director of Marketing, NAN, Mr Isaac Ighure, Niboro said an uneducated person was a liability to the whole world.
“It is always good to educate women because of their influence in the society.
“It is sad to neglect the education of the girl child, so, we should do whatever is to be done now to bring them at par with the boys.
“I know that with the support of the politicians this mission is achievable,’’ he said.
The managing director said the three subjects were good because Nigeria was in a hurry to develop technologically and that the partnership would help Nigeria reach a stage of self reliance.
He commended UNESCO for choosing to partner with NAN, saying it had a wider outreach, especially with the introduction of the NAN Television that kicked off recently.
He appealed to the organisation to look for a means of reaching the male child in the future.
By NAN
Rokhaya Diawara, UNESCO Programme Specialist on Education, said this when a delegation from the organisation paid a courtesy visit to the Managing Director of NAN, Mr Ima Niboro.
Diawara said the organisation was set to reach these women using television to broadcast because of its impact on the society.
She said that NAN was most appropriate to work with because of its wide reach.
Subject areas to be covered are: Basic Science, Mathematics and Computer.
According to her, the organisation has employed the services of experts from Dakar, Senegal, to help in the implementation of the programme.
She also said that the programme had been implemented in Senegal where it recorded huge success.
Niboro, in his response, commended UNESCO for its giant strides in ensuring education for women in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.
Represented by the Executive Director of Marketing, NAN, Mr Isaac Ighure, Niboro said an uneducated person was a liability to the whole world.
“It is always good to educate women because of their influence in the society.
“It is sad to neglect the education of the girl child, so, we should do whatever is to be done now to bring them at par with the boys.
“I know that with the support of the politicians this mission is achievable,’’ he said.
The managing director said the three subjects were good because Nigeria was in a hurry to develop technologically and that the partnership would help Nigeria reach a stage of self reliance.
He commended UNESCO for choosing to partner with NAN, saying it had a wider outreach, especially with the introduction of the NAN Television that kicked off recently.
He appealed to the organisation to look for a means of reaching the male child in the future.
By NAN
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