{"id":108274,"date":"2024-04-06T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education"},"modified":"2024-04-07T21:27:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T21:27:01","slug":"reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education","title":{"rendered":"REO warns against denying girls education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. <\/strong><\/span><b>KAGERA: <\/b>KAGERA Regional Education Officer (REO), Mr Michael Ligola has warned parents against denying their female children the right to education.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, he underscored the importance of educating girls, saying education would save girls and women from violence against them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoint efforts were needed to ensure that girls get equal education like boys. Experience has proved that girls can perform well in life if given chance. We have laws in place that protect women, we must apply them to ensure women rights are exercised accordingly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Expounding, he said nowadays most women have become good leaders and bread earners, citing President Samia Suluhu Hassan, Minister for Defence Dr Stargomena Tax and Speaker of the Parliament, Dr Tulia Ackson as vivid examples.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome parents have stopped their daughters from attending school so that they can take dowry and the daughters fall into early marriages. We cannot remain silent while these girls are deprived to get their basic right to education,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\">Tanzania<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Tanzania. KAGERA: KAGERA Regional Education Officer (REO), Mr Michael Ligola has warned parents against denying their female children the right to education. Equally, he underscored the importance of educating girls, saying education would save girls and women from violence against them. \u201cJoint efforts were needed to ensure that girls get equal education like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":108273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6990,6991,711],"class_list":["post-108274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press-2","tag-africa-press-tanzania","tag-tanzania"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>REO warns against denying girls education - Tanzania<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"KAGERA: KAGERA Regional Education Officer (REO), Mr Michael Ligola has warned parents against denying their femal ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"REO warns against denying girls education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"KAGERA: KAGERA Regional Education Officer (REO), Mr Michael Ligola has warned parents against denying their femal ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Tanzania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-06T22:22:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-07T21:27:01+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2024\/04\/sm_1712429106.540999.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"REO warns against denying girls education\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-06T22:22:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-07T21:27:01+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/sites\/17\/2024\/04\/sm_1712429106.540999.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Tanzania\",\"tanzania\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/tanzania\/all-news\/reo-warns-against-denying-girls-education\",\"name\":\"REO warns against denying girls education - 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