Marry educated women for better life, university don advises men

A female professor in Zamfara state, Professor Bilkisu Shinkafi, has called on men to marry educated women in order to check social vices in the society.

Prof. Shinkafi made the call on Tuesday, in Gusau, at a Town Hall meeting organized by the Zamfara Circle, an NGO

The Deen of the Faculty of Science at the Federal University, Gusau, noted that many of the vices exhibited by youths in the state were carried out by children of illiterate mothers who did not have the capacity to train their children.

She said that marrying an educated woman would eliminate thuggery, illness, illiteracy, poverty and hunger from the society “as such mothers will ensure that their children go to school to become better citizens of the society”.

She also explained that the issue of maternal, neo natal and infant mortality would be significantly…