Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu says it is important that Nigerians in particular and Africans in general recognise that education plays a pivotal role in shaping attitudes, beliefs and behaviours from an early age, and early education should be treated with utmost importance.
She was speaking against the background of using education to combat child and youth violence in Africa.
The First Lady who joined other African First Ladies under the auspices of the Organisation of African First Ladies for Development, OAFLAD in Angola to launch the #WeAre Equal campaign pointed out that education remains a critical component of any progressive society.
She called for the inclusion of activities to help dismantle notions of gender specific roles in teaching.
Senator Oluremi Tinubu who raised concern about the spate of gender and domestic violence especially the incidences of rape and defilement, she believes educated and well informed people of both gender would abstain from such.
In his address to declare the conference open, the President of the Republic of Angola, Manuel Goncalves Lourenco urged the First Ladies to lend their voices to quell the various conflicts around the world especially as women and children are the worst affected.
