The study was a descriptive survey design. A stratified sample of 10 West African countries with more out-of-school girls. Fifty-seven million children, adolescents, and youth are barred from attending school in the Central and West Africa region, representing 24.1 percent of the 236 million out of school worldwide, warn the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in a report published on the eve of the International Day to Protect Education from Attack in Nigeria, Enugu state was used and a questionnaire constructed by the researchers was used to generate data and analyze using frequencies and percentages. Many factors were examined. The result of the findings revealed that factors such as Peer influence, the quest for money and material things, the unfriendly situations of school, the effect of social media, low level of understanding of sex education, and violence against girls are responsible for poor enrolment or high level of out of school girl in schools. The results were 95% the same in about 10 West African Countries. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made among which are: there is a need for effective policy by the West African regional governments enacting the laws that can protect the dignity of the girl child in the society with full enforcement. There is a need for quality assuring standards of education by West African States ministries of education. This is to monitor the number of girl children in school and find out why any of them fail to come. West African Government State Governments should develop school curricula that will involve sex education. This will help the students or adolescents to build positive self-esteem and body image.

Authors: Omole Titilola Foluso

Published in: Canada International Conference on Education, 2024

• Date of Conference: 23-25 July, 2024
• DOI: 10.20533/CICE.2024.0029
• Electronic ISBN: 978-1-913572-65-5
• Conference Location: Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada