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Aisha Alhassan, minister of women affairs, says the federal government will establish special schools for women who abandoned school to get married.

Alhassan disclosed this to journalists in Katsina on Thursday.

According to her, the school will be in two categories- for those whose education was cut short for certain reasons and adult literacy schools to help women attain a certain level of literacy.

“All women that married at an early age will have the opportunity to continue their education from their husbands’ houses,” Alhassan said.

“The schools will be in two categories so as to avoid problems emanating from the establishment of the schools.

“The first category is for those who started their schooling but due to one reason or the other dropped out.

“The other category is for the adult literacy classes that will be established in all local governments to assist women attain certain literacy level.

“In the adult literacy schools, the women will also be empowered with skills training during their lessons.

“The women will be trained how to make soap, local soft drink, candle, pomade, cake, local hair dressing, tailoring and other small businesses.”

Alhassan appealed to religious and traditional leaders to continue supporting ongoing efforts to boost the enrollment of the girl-child into schools nationwide.

She said the education of female children was very important and as such, the leaders should encourage parents to send them to school.