OUR CHILDREN NEEDS PROTECTION IN SCHOOLS



    OUR CHILDREN NEEDS PROTECTION IN SCHOOLS
C (2018)   C NDUBUISI      27/02/2018              WEEK 9

“The world our children will inherit tomorrow is born in the schools we build today”. Jonathan Sacks






Peace be upon you. 

We were regaled with news about the abduction of over one hundred school girls in Yobe, Adamawa state Nigerian. The Federal Government confirmed that 110 pupils of the Government Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, are still unaccounted for after Boko Haram terrorists invaded their school as a newspaper reported.

I can vividly recall a song we sang back in primary school; it goes thus:
“Parents listen to your children
For we are the future generation
Help and build our schools
And give us sound education”

Going through the Convention on the Right of the Child and The African Charter on the Rights and welfare of the child (ACRWC) some messages remains very sacrosanct in all these documents. These points includes
·         Fighting Child trafficking
·         Stopping Child marriage
·         Supporting children educationally
·         Providing them good health services
·         Fighting child labour
·         Child drug use
·         Child sexual exploitation
·         Child torture
·         Child soldiers
·         Helping children without parents and incarcerated parents

In all these indices enumerated, where is Nigeria standing? What efforts are we making to secure the future for our children? Shall we continue to build schools were our children will be kidnapped?

The world is opening more to the girl child while we in Nigeria are abducting ours and taking them back too stone age. The Chibok girl saga is still a sad reminder. 

It is important to note that “wars are won by weapons but it takes ideas to win peace” and these ideas can be partly generated in schools.

Gaspar Jovellance notes that “numerous are the streams that leads to social prosperity but all spring from the same source and that is public education”.
Peace be upon you.

Read more @chibundubuisi.blogspot.com


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Rising Africa: A Narrative of Hope. By Chibu Ndubuisi

                                                                                      Rising Africa: A Narrative of Hope                                           07/08/2017 By Chibu Ndubuisi Peace be with you. In the year 2000, The Economist magazine called Africa "the hopeless continent" hence I am presenting a  narrative of hope about  "Our Rising Africa". The story of Africa is not about hunger,poverty, famine,war,  corruption,  tyranny, dictatorship,  terrorism,  child marriage,  genitial mutiliation, unfavourable inheritance laws for women, advance fee fraud, kidnapping,  ineffectual bureaucracy,  failure of leadership, workers not paid their salaries, sexual offences against children, genocide,  poor infrastructures,  diseases etc.i want to present a narrative of work in progress in African countries and how hope is been given back to people who once had "paradise lost". In their book, Execution: the Discipline of Getting Things Done(2002), aut
Read more

RESIST ARREST

                                                        RESIST ARREST                                                   CHIBU NDUBUISI 08/2017 Peace be to you. To resist anything requires knowledge and courage not to give in or yield to antics of entanglement. Captivity stifles and limits.  Captivity is not only when you are holed up in a physical place, it is more than that.  Some have developed  life patterns that resist unhealthy, unproductive and needless distractions which stares at us on a daily basis, by the choices they made, they resisted arrest. while some just flow with the current passively and are arrested by ldeas that have fractured the world.  Eighty two(82) Chibok girls were released from captivity by Boko Haram terrorist organisation in a prisoner swap deal yesterday(7/5/2017). The negotiating teams had a noble obligation of  making sure that no matter the provocations, human life matters.   That human life must be protected and provided for at all cost. They
Read more

CURSED OR THE CAUSE.A LESSON IN MISCALCULATION AND MISADVENTURE. (1)

Image
CURSED OR THE CAUSE.A LESSON IN MISCALCULATION AND MISADVENTURE.   (1) C (2018)                     CHIBU NDUBUISI                           02/04/2018     WEEK 14 “Be careful what you pray for because you may get it and regret”              Peace be upon you. As part of the electioneering jingle repertoire of former Governor of Anambra State Peter Obi, who kicked off his campaign by waxing philosophical in 2003, by posing two questions to the electorate, he asked; are we Cursed or are we the Curse in Anambra state? Taking into account the plunder and pillage the state has been subjected to by political gladiators with the connections to abduct a sitting Governor (Chris Ngige) and the support of the central government.   For many months, teachers were not paid their salaries during the era of Mbadiniju, who turned from an elected Governor to elected evangelist; he absconded and displayed negligence of the duty of statecraft of fashioning good policies, to declarin
Read more