His Royal Highness, Alh Abubakar Umar Suleiman OFR, the Emir of Bade on behalf of the KGIS network in his emirate hosted a town hall meeting on girls’ education.
The meeting which had in attendance key stakeholders had a paper on the “Importance of Girl-Child Education from an Islamic Perspective and their Contribution in the Society” by Malam Salisu Danladi from the College of Education Gashua, emphasizing the need for parents to send their children to schools to acquire both Islamic and western knowledge. He cited different Verses of the Qur’an and authentic Hadith to prove that seeking knowledge is compulsory for everyone.
This foundation laid by the traditional and religious leaders and the academics provided a solid ground for the participants to easily identify and raise relevant issues during the session, these includes:
- School fees, the Emirate are doing their best in paying scholarships to numerous pupils in various schools, especially for orphans.
- The establishment of keeping girls in a school trust fund.
- The Emirate will encourage the elite in the town to assist the less privileged to go back to school.
