Nigerian child prodigy Zuriel Oduwole meets Mauritius Minister

Nigerian child prodigy Zuriel Oduwole in keeping up with her mission of a comprehensive follow up to her interviews, has just met the Mauritius Minister of Gender and Child Development, Hon Maria Martin in Port Louis – Mauritius. She was very pleased to meet Zuriel, and explainedthe many steps being taken by her government to continue the development of Girls Education& Women [Gender] Development in her country.
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“Our Government has taken a cue, and pursued a fair and involved policy of education for all, and we have intensified this effort over the last many months. We also enacted the local government act 2 years ago to encourage women to participate in local politics, and we have gone from 14th position to 6th position in local government participation among the 15 SADEC countries”, she said.
Minister Martin also requested for Zuriel to spend more time in Mauritius to meet with many students across the country to share the versatile and exciting story, of her accomplishments so far.

As part of her mission of sensitizing African leaders on the need to create the same opportunities for Africa’s Girls as Boys on primary, secondary and possibly also tertiary education, Zuriel Oduwolehas met and interviewed [8] African Presidents & [1] African Prime Minister on this issue.

Part of her meeting and interview of the leaders, was to find out where they are in their respective countries on the issue of Girl Child education, and where they plan to be in a few months or a few year’s One of the Presidents Zuriel interviewed in December 2012 was President Rajkeswur Purryag of Mauritius.