Nobel Peace laureate, Malala Yousafzai, said
if just eight days of fund spent by world
leader in purchasing military hardware could
be diverted to education, it could ensure 12
years of free primary and secondary
education to every child in the world.
The 17-year-old Pakistani education activist
made this remark while addressing delegates
from 40 countries at an education summit in
the Norwegian capital Oslo.
“ Books are better investment in our future than
bullets. The sum of 39 billion dollars each year
may appear a huge number, but the reality is
that it is not.
“The issue is not that there is not enough
money, the issue is the lack of commitment
from the world leaders to invest in education, ’’
Malala said.Malala was shot in the head by Taliban
militants three years ago because of her
campaign for the right of girls to education.
At the conference, Norwegian Prime Minister,
Erna Solberg, announced that Chile, Indonesia,
Malawi and Norway along with the head of
the UN agency UNESCO launched an
international commission on improving funding
for education. “Funding has dropped since
2010. Key areas included ensuring the
education of girls, the quality of learning and
teaching, and education in emergencies,’’
Solberg said.
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon, approved
the commission at the same conference,
noting that 2 per cent of humanitarian aid
should go to education in crisis areas. The
commission’s recommendations are expected
to be presented in 2016.
The commission is headed by Former British
prime minister and now UN special envoy on
global education .Brown said about 59 million
children worldwide are still out of primary
school, while another 65 million do not get
secondary education, while 500 million girls
will not finish school.
Universal primary education is one of the UN
millennium development goals (MDGs)
adopted in 2000. Later this year, the UN
planned to launch new global benchmarks,
sustainable development goals, for the coming
15 years.
Sources: Naij.com news , Vanguard

I hope dy cover dia faces wit dia hands wn dy gt to read/ hear dz

Malaga talks like a high school debator.

But then she IS young, so...

Malaga....hmmm that girl eh

This girl is now on everything... Anyhow she survived Dat assassination for a reason...

Why should you invest in education when you can just use a gun to loot the southern Nigeria from their hard earned money? Smarter investment for northerners if you ask me