panoramic view on several issues
For decades now, the standard of education in Nigeria, my home country has increasingly been dwindling and it does not look like any form of salvage is on the way given the current magnitude of the wreckage done on the educational sector. The emergence of COVID-19 has only fumed the flames as pupils and students have been rendered unoccupied, leaving them largely to their devices. Consequently, teenage crime rate has increased in recent months, as well as teenage pregnancy. Again, the female gender is at the receiving end, which raises questions on the issue of gender in Nigeria.
According to the demographic health survey jointly conducted by the UNICEF in 2015, of the 262 million out of school children in the world, 10.5 million are in Nigeria; the number increased to 13.2 million at the end of the third quarter in 2019. These are children who either never enrolled or did not complete primary school education.
However, I have been doing my bit as I organize afterschool and weekend extramural tutorials for children in these categories and also teaching mathematics online via the likes of Whatsapp, Telegram and Zoom app. I am committed to making sure that all children irrespective of their gender have access to quality education, gain the skills and knowledge for a life-long learning which is pivotal to fighting poverty, preventing diseases and building peaceful societies thereby actualizing the UN 2030 agenda for sustainable development (SDG 4 and SDG 5).
Studying Mathematics in an educationally topnotch country like Sweden will avail me the opportunity to have a panoramic view on issues such as quality education and gender equality. Through seminars with other global leaders and industry experts within the SI Alumni in my home country I will use my leadership skills to create networks and develop mutual learning process through which I will host workshops on innovation to promote quality and gender based education for a sustainable development. I would engage in an on-air teaching of mathematics at various television stations and also engage in writing columns in various newspaper and magazines, sensitizing fellow Nigerians on the need for all to be stakeholders in education, especially girl-child education, which will in the future set my home country on a lofty pedestal among nations of the world.
