According to the National President of the Council of Catholic Women
Organisation of Nigeria,Chief Felicia Onyeabo, there will be a scarcity
of quality husbands in Nigeria in the near future following the
increasing number of male dropouts from schools in the last 10 years.
Mrs Onyeabo said this at a press briefing to herald the inauguration of a
catholic school in Abuja last week
“The future of this country is going to be very bleak for the
male-child. How many girls do you see hawking clothes? Go to Onitsha,
they are all men. We have looked round and have come to see that there
is a neglect of boys in education. Who are the armed robbers on the
streets? They are mostly the boys. Let us concentrate on training boys.
The NCCWO feels that a vacuum is being created, and
very soon, we shall be faced with a situation where our educated
girl-child will not find a corresponding suitable boy-child to marry.
This is because more boys drop out of school, apparently because the
high rate of unemployed youth discourages our young boys from
appreciating the need to be educated. The NCCWO also considers the fact
that in the near future, quality husbands will become extremely scarce,
with too many highly educated women looking for husbands, and settling
for anyhow husbands, just to get married. The result of this type of
situation is better imagined and will not augur well for Nigerians.”she
said
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