If education is the foundation of national development, what happens when that foundation excludes millions of girls? Across Nigeria, nearly nine million girls are not in school, not because they lack intelligence, curiosity, or ambition, but because the system designed to protect and educate them has quietly stepped aside. Their absence is so widespread that it has begun to feel normal. Empty desks no longer shock us. Lost futures barely register…But what kind of country accepts the disappearance of almost half of its daughters from the classroom and calls it business as usual? On a dusty road in northern Nigeria, a girl balances a tray of sachet water on her head and walks past a school compound. Laughter spills from inside the classrooms. A bell rings. Lessons begin. She does not stop. She never does. Multiply her story by nine million. Across Nigeria, nearly nine million girls are not in school, not because they lack intelligence, curiosity, or ambition, but because the syste...
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