Nigerian soldiers need drones for surveillance and reconnaissance of danger zones to checkmate ambushes by both Boko Haram terrorists and unidentified gunmen. And drones can follow escaping enemies to their camps and hideouts. Drones will reduce casualties and save lives.
— 247 Nigeria (@247nigeria) September 30, 2018
- Development Post
Hussaina Musa, a 13-year old is one of the over 130 million girls out of school in the world. Hussaina like many girls in northern nigeria in her shoes, dropped out of school not because she wants to get married but simply due to cost her widowed mother could not bear.
Hussaina’s mum, now 28 year old married since she was 15 in Sabon Gayan, a community in Kaduna State. She gave birth to 6 children including Hussaina, before death snatched her husband. And this was when Hussaina’s travails began.
“I left school not quite long because I could not afford the expenses it involved any further. I was in primary 3 when I stopped going to school” in the words of Hussaina, who is ambitious to return to the classroom and learn.
Nigeria already has 10 million children out of school—the highest number in the world. Almost one of three primary age children is not enrolled and one in four secondary-school age children. In many states, girls are twice as likely to be out of school as boys. In some parts of Nigeria, only five percent of the poorest young women are literate. Given these challenges, it is "especially abhorrent" that the girls were abducted to prevent them from attending school.~ UNICEF
