Tag: out-of-school Children
Out-of-school children: Gov. Radda meets Ulamas on proposed family law reforms
Governor Radda emphasized that a strong and effective legal framework is crucial to building stable marriages, defining parental responsibilities, and…
FG inaugurates feeding programme to reach 20m out-of-school children
The project launched on Children’s Day was one of the flagship initiatives of the National Social Investment Program Agency (NSIPA)…
Kano tops Northwest in out-of-school children, says UNICEF
Kano alone accounts for 989,234 out-of-school children, while Katsina and Jigawa have 536,112 and 337,861 respectively. Farah added that in…
Tinubu: I’m committed to returning out-of school children to classrooms
Speaking at the meeting held at the Palais des Élysée at the beginning of his three-day state visit to France,…
Northern Nigeria has 15.23 million out-of-school children – Report
Statisense which got its data from UNICEF also says southern Nigeria has 2.58 million children who are not in school.
Mining areas record rise in out-of-school children – Report
The study is part of the efforts to implement the Federal Government`s “Roadmap for the Growth and Development of the…
Kano launches campaign for zero out-of-school children
Kano Commissioner of Education, Alhaji Haruna Umar Doguwa, said the state government has provided all facilities needed to ensure that…
1 million children out of school in Kano: UNICEF
Munduate said Nigeria needed to redouble efforts in addressing the critical issue of out-of-school children and improve investments in the…
Obasanjo’s bombshell: Nigeria’s 20m out-of-school children foundation for future Boko Haram
Obasanjo charged Nigerians to google how many countries in the world had less than 20m, asking: "That doesn’t worry us? Are…
Kaduna govt unveils campaign to enroll 145,553 out-of-school children
The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (Kaduna SUBEB) has begun a campaign to enroll 145,553 out-of-school children in schools,…
Niger re-enrolls 224,879 out-of-school children
He said that the board paid N400 million as outstanding four months BASDA arrears to 400 local facilitators targeted at…
Atiku: I will make sure universities are open forever and ever
Abubakar who was speaking at the PDP campaign rally in Abuja on Saturday, also pledged to improve security of the…
American University Yola enrols 1,232 out-of-school children
Dr Magee Ensign, President of AUN, said insurgency had contributed to having huge number of out-of-school children in the North…
Oyo SUBEB to end out-of-school children menace
The implementation of the Better Education Service Delivery for All programme (BESDA), an initiative of the Federal Government, has changed…
Oyo, UBEC adopt ‘Iwe-Kika’ for out-of-school children
The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) in Oyo State has adopted a literary book, ‘Iwe-kika’ (Book reading) for the implementation…
Nigeria has Africa’s highest out-of-school children
Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba said that Nigeria has an estimated 10,193,918 Out-of-School Children, the highest in sub-Saharan…
Reps. seek solution to out-of-school children
Speaker of the House of Representatives Femi Gbajabiamila has urged members to attend Thursday’s plenary dedicated to seeking solutions to…
500,000 Kano out-of-school children enrolled
The Kano State Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Sanusi-Kiru, says over 500,000 out-of-school children in the state are now back to…
10m out-of-school children, 65m illiterates in Nigeria – NMAC
The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-formal Education (NMAC) says there are 65 million Nigerians that can neither…
Out of school children increases to 13.2m – UBEC
Mr Hamid Bobboyi, Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has said that the number of out-of-school children increased from…
Governments urged to address Almajiri, out-of-school children issues
Prof. Steve Nwokeocha, Department of Sociology, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University (IBBU), Lapai, Niger, has called on the Federal and State…
175 out-of-school children in Niger benefit from free education
The Niger State Government on Wednesday said it had started sponsoring 175 out-of-school children in various public primary and secondary…
World Bank earmarks $620 million grant to tackle menace of out-of-school Children
The World Bank has disclosed that it has set aside the sum of $620 million as grant specifically meant to…