The Federal Government, through the National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration, has decried the lack of attention to the education of the girl-child in the country.

Speaking during the opening of a five-day training workshop for school administrators held in Ondo, Ondo State, the  Director-General of NIEPA, Prof. Lilian Salami, who conveyed the government’s position, said the girl-child, in comparison to the opposite sex, was being subjected to “demeaning and destabilising situations” that had placed her in a disadvantaged position in the society.

Source : Punch