The Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria, Kano State branch, has started a campaign to encourage girls to study engineering.
Chairperson of the association, Dr Zainab Yunusa, of the Engineering Department of the Bayero University, Kano, (BUK), told reporters in the city that it was important to encourage girls to embrace engineering as the profession was not exclusively for men.
To this end, Yunusa said the association would organise a career guidance talk and public lectures for 120 female students selected from 20 secondary schools within the Kano metropolis.
“Gone are the days when engineering was left for only men. Today, engineering is not for men only again; hence our decision to organise the career guidance talk so as to encourage girls to study engineering courses,” she said.
She also said during the career guidance talk, a lecture would be presented on the ills of drug abuse among the youth.
“It is very disheartening to hear that some women and youths are now going into drugs. The lecture will, therefore, be used to sensitise the students on the dangers of drug abuse,” she said.
Yunusa said the lecture would be attended by various stakeholders, including representatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) and medical doctors, among others.
“Women are the home makers and we have high poverty and divorce rate in the north. So, we have to empower our women, and education is the key,” she added.
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