THE ACHIEVEMENT AND IMPACT OF WOMEN EDUCATION ON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (A CASE STUDY OF MBALITOLI) (EDUCATION PROJECT TOPICS AND MATERIALS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND/OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY
The project aims at identifying the impact of women education on community development in Mbaitoli local government Area of Imo state. The education backwardness of females. In this domain has parents attitudes towards the education of the girl children, parent socio economic background, the unresponsive attitude of females themselves towards education, certain aspects of the culture of the people and government education policy in the area of study. In the whole, a lot is invested on education in the belief that education is basic to national development progress.
The federal and state government of Nigeria place high premium on education they recognize the fact that education is a weapon against ignorance, disease, squalor unenlightened Living and industrious citizenry capable of producing a prosperous nation more especially among the women folk. No wonder an adage says Train a man, you Train a soul Train a woman you Train a nation the Nigeria government taxes organization of the importance of education when it stipulated in the policy on education (1977) that education is the confide right of every Nigerian child, respective of real or marginal disability, this means that the females child is not life out.
In a nutshell, woman education helps woman to play many of the modern roles in the society unity and society at large. Without education the society will still be backward and will look like a mirage and it will be worst when more than half of the society members which is the women group are not educated.
1.2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
History is said to thrive in controversy and this is inevitable because of nature of the discipline. No history about a man and his society written or tap by a man is unflawed by personal understanding and judgment. Oral history and to lesser extent written history must as a ruler be fair to a section of those concerned while at the same time being unfair to others, thus the reconstruction and documentation of historical events have been bedeviled by a myriad of controversies, these without documented or written history. This is the case with the history of people of Mbaitoli and Igbo?s in general. No. historical question arouses more interest among. Present day Igbo?s that the inquiry where the Igbo?s come from.
The area known Mbaitoli Local Government Area in Imo State of Nigeria has nothing in existence to the best of our knowledge by way of a permanent publication as the cult antic origin or history of the people of Mbaitoli as at the year 2000. The people of Mbaitoli have no history of a common notable ancestry. But the origin and history of the component town that make up Mbaitoli abound, and some dates back to 4000 year ago. Before the coming of the white men, there was no Mbaitoli and each of the nine community existed long before the advent of colonnade masters. Between 1930 and 1932, major Stephenson the district officer for Owerri division became anxious for decentralization of traditional authority Mbaitoli and Ikeduru were amalgamated in a federal council in 1957 and in October 1958, Mbaitoli separated and established Mbaitoli district council with this arrangement, Mbieri native court dispensary and postal agency came into existence until 1958 when the name was changed to Mbaitoli. It remained a country council until the first military coup data in 1966.
