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Ict In Girl-Child Education: The Teacher Element, Prof Ada Sam Omenyi, Ngozi Agu, Christy Odimegwu

Prof Ada Sam Omenyi

Female illiteracy has been identified as one of the major obstacles to social, political and economic development in most countries of the world, particularly African countries. This situation caught the attention of the United Nations particularly, UNESCO, UNICEF, individual governments, governmental and non-governmental organizations. It is elating to know that these interventions have yielded immense fruit that most African countries have managed to get parity between boys and girls enrolment in primary and secondary schools. However, there exist problems of performance, drop-out and low enrolment in science and technology courses amongst others. Fortunately, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) promise to …