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Eagle Builders Foundation presents MALALA DAY 2015 Malala Day is an important day to raise awareness and to help girls realize their right to education. It is a day set aside by United Nations Global Education First Initiative to support Pakistani education and right activist, MalalaYousafzai. It is a day to raise your voice in support of girl child education and government to invest more in education. Every child has the right to education. It is fundamental to all other development. Despite this right, 126 million children remain out of primary and lower secondary school around the world with Nigeria having the highest number of 10.5 million out-of-school children followed by Pakistan with 7 million. Of this number, 65 million are girls while there are 250 million children in school who are not learning due to lack of a quality education. It is also reported that some countries lose more than $1 billion a year by failing to educate girls at the same level as boys. To ...

EAGLE BUILDERS FOUNDATION, a non-governmental and not-for-profits organization joins campaign for Global Education First Initiative Youth Advocacy Group and calling for youth to reinforce advocacy for every child of schooling age in Nigeria to be in school. The organization make case for NIGERIA EDUCATION FIRST PROJECT (NEFP) to mobilize young people around the 36 States of Nigeria and Abuja to facilitate Free and Compulsory Education Policy in Nigeria.  The Executive Director of the organization, Ubong David frown at a report by British Broadcasting Corporation that 10 million Nigerian children are out of school while Pakistan recorded 7 million out of school children. He submitted that the report is very embarrassing and damaging considering the resources available in the country. He calls on youth leaders, activists, education communicators and policy makers to join hand in advocating for every out of school child in Nigeria to return back to school.  He submitted t...

Monday, July 14, 2014 Photos: Malala Yousafzai meets President Jonathan Girl-child education advocate, Malala Yousafzai, accompanied by her dad, met with Pres. Jonathan today Monday July 14 at the State House. Speaking during the meeting, president Jonathan said; “I personally believe that since about 50 per cent of our population are female, we will be depriving ourselves of half of our available human resources if we fail to educate our girls adequately or suppress their ambitions in any way. We are therefore taking steps to curb all forms of discrimination against girls and women, and have also undertaken many affirmative actions on their behalf"  he stated. See more photos ... "Terror is relatively new here and dealing with it has its challenges. The great challenge in rescuing the Chibok girls is the need to ensure that they are rescued alive.The Govt and its security agencies were very mindful of the need to avoid the scenario in rescue attempts ...

Chibok Girls And The Significance Of Malala's Visit To Nigeria By  Inibehe Effiong Contrary to the pessimistic and cynical views expressed by some Nigerians on the practical relevance and functional usefulness of the very historic visit to Nigeria by Malala Yousafzai, the home truth is that the struggle for the release of the over 200 Chibok girls from the excruciating captivity of Boko Haram has taken a new dimension. Born on 12 July, 1997, Malala Yousafzai, a spirited Pakistani teenager is a school pupil and education activist from the town of Mingora in the Swat District of Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. In the afternoon of Tuesday, 9 October, 2012, Malala had boarded her school bus when a gunman asked for Malala by name, pointed a Colt 45 at her and fired three shots, she survived. Her offence was defying the Taliban's ban on girls from attending school. That singular incident altered the status of Malala from a local Pakistani school ...