Socio-economic Justifications for Renewed Calls for Girl-child Education in South-South Nigeria

The study examined the extent social and economic advantages justify the renewedcalls for girl-child education in South-South Nigeria. Two research questions andtwo hypotheses guided the study, whose design was descriptive, the populations asthe 12 Ministries of Education and Women Affairs in the Zone and the sample as141 Ministerial Directors, selected using the census and stratified random samplingtechniques. The study instrument was the validated researcher’s designed Socio-Economic Justifications for Girl-Child Scale, with a reliability index of 0.89. Meanand standard deviation were used in answering the research questions and t-testfor testing the hypotheses at 0.05 probability level. The results show that social andeconomic advantages justify the renewed calls for girl-child education to a highextent. It also established significant differences between the responses of theMinisterial Directors on the extent to which socio-economic advantages justify thecalls for girl-child education. The study submitted that, renewed calls for girl-childeducation are results from some identified social and economic advantages.
Consequently, the study recommends that, stakeholders should probe to identifymore rationalizations to buttress the renewed calls for the education of the femalefolk in society.