By Dr. Jumai Ahmadu Women’s advocacy in Africa has reached a point where we must ask an important question: Are we building a movement that will outlive individual advocates, or are we creating platforms that rise and fall with personalities? The distinction is important. When advocacy for women’s inclusion becomes too closely identified with an individual, political party, social class or personal ambition, it can easily be misunderstood as a struggle for positions. But when it is anchored in institutions, laws, national development and measurable benefits for society, it becomes…
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Inclusive education critical for national development, ABU alumnus tells FG
Kayode Ajiga, Chairman Steering Committee Accounting Class of ’97, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria says the mainstreaming of inclusive education in the nation’s educational system is critical to sustainable national development and social cohesion. Ajiga said this in Abuja at the 25 years anniversary and reunion of the Alumni Association. He said that inculcating inclusive education in the school curriculum would allow students with special needs to study with their peers in the same academic environment. “Education as we all know is the key to national development, hence the need…
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