“Everyone wins when children — and especially girls – have access to education. An educated girl is likely to increase her personal earning potential and prepare herself for a productive and fulfilling life, as well as reduce poverty in the whole community. Investing in girls’ education also helps delay early marriage and parenthood. Our booming economies in Africa need more female engineers, teachers and doctors to prosper and sustain growth.” – Angelique Kidjo.


Millions of Nigerian girls have access to university education, however the challenges faced in the system diminishes the quality of education they get. Nigerian girls are constantly faced with a myriad of challenges which make the university environment a dangerous place. Here are 4 reasons why Nigerian universities are unsafe for girls:

1. Gender discrimination

Nigerian universities do not offer equal opportunities to boys and girls. This discrimination is visible right from the admission process, example: The proportion of girls who apply for core science courses and the proportion who get in.

Also, in the school environment there's rarely equal opportunity for both sexes. Some Nigerian universities do not allow girls to contest for all the seats in the student union government. Specific seats which are often insignificant are reserved for the girls.

Lecturers also play a big role in gender discrimination. They occasionally lend support to the idealism that girls ought to serve the boys. When conflict arises between males and females they are quick to reprimand the girls with, “don't you know he's a man?”

2. Sexual Harassment

Sexual Harassment of ladies is one of the biggest issues in Nigerian universities today, Ladies face harassment from both male colleagues and lecturers who believe a woman's body is theirs for the asking.

Girls fail courses, drop out in droves or bag extra years when they try to resist sexual harassment from lecturers. Even where evidence of harassment is presented to management, they still prefer to support one of their own (the lecturer). Girls are blamed for getting harassed.

If a girl is raped and she dares report, her image is dragged through the mud. Even when rape case is between two students you hear questions like, ‘haven't you done it before [haven’t you had sex before]? ’, ‘why did you go there?’ thrown at the girl. Butt grabbing and sneer comments which constitute sexual harassment in saner climes are laughed off in Nigeria.

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True talk dear OP. Our ladies education in our higher institutions today is a social menace.