Dr Makanti Baru, the Group Managing Director(GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) , has advised parents to encourage their daughters to take up careers in engineering.
Baru gave the advice on Saturday in Misau at the inauguration of the Association of Professional Women Engineers (APWEN), programme title “Invent it, Build it”
He said gone were the days when engineering was for the male children alone as female children could become engineers nowadays.
”Parents should raise the awareness on the value of science and engineering careers among their daughters.
“Boys who study: Mathematics, Further Mathematicss, Chemistry, Biology and Physics in schools at present are more than girls.
”We need more girls in the Sciences and I urge parents to give their daughters all the…
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