United States Secretary of State, John Kerry, on Wednesday expressed the American Government’s readiness to support and enhance girl-child education in Nigeria.
Kerry stated this in his opening remarks at a closed door meeting with some Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) students and other gifted girls’ groups in Abuja.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that STEM is a U.S programme aimed at encouraging girl-child education in science and technology.
Others at the meeting include “opportunity students” under the U.S Scholarship Programme, Violere group.
The secretary expressed concern that there were many girls who never had the opportunity to go to school, while many others were forced into early marriage.
He said the U.S Government was ready to work with the Federal Government to help girls have better education.
“So, we are working very hard to empower the girls through education so that they will be able to make their choices,” NAN quoted the U.S Secretary of State as saying at the forum.
“Now, we want to see how we can all work together to empower everybody to make their choices.
“We can all together make our communities work, so that we can have a better society.”