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URGENT: In the next few hours we have a chance to set the next 15 years of global education policy: it's the last day of the ‪#‎ WorldEducationForum‬ in South Korea. Tweet Your Support for 12 years for all → http://ctt.ec/8aD8q (Remember to fill in why you believe secondary education is important). Right now 160 countries are debating if 12 years of free, quality education should be a right for every child. Will you tweet a message about why that matters to YOU & girls everywh ere? http://ctt.ec/8aD8q The negotiators are checking their phones, and the conference's hashtag - #worldeducationforum - between every session. If they see our messages, they will know the world demands it and are watching. Let's show how Girls + 12 years of publicly funded education = Empowerment When you add ‪#‎ 12years‬ of education to a girl's life, she can truly achieve her dreams. This is Amina, Malala's friend from Northern Nigeria. Even though s...

By Joy Tiku Enighe Nigeria has being facing insecurity challenges lately, one of which is insurgency. Boko Haram has being leashing terror on children and school premises - abducting schoolgirls, using young and innocent children as suicide bombers and child soldiers. It is indeed a very traumatic and heartbreaking situation. It was revealed recently that some parents in the north-eastern region of Nigeria had sold their young daughters to Boko Haram as potential suicide bombers, at the cost of #150,000 naira only. This has kept me thinking on how poverty and ignorance can lead people to get involved in an inhumane act. One of the girls sacrificed by her dad for money and wired with an explosive vest and detonator reported to security. Her dad had spread a mat in preparation for funeral prayers for his daughter when he was arrested. Interrogations led to further revelations of parents who were about to receive payments for supplying their daughters as s...