Tag: out-of-school
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100m children, youth out of school in Africa – AU
The African Union (AU) says no fewer than 100 million children and youth aged five to 19 across Africa are not socially integrated simply because they are out of school. AU Commissioner for Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Mohammed Belhocine
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Reps to ensure enrollment of 14m out-of-school children
The House of Representatives says it will ensure that 14 million out-of-school Nigerian children are back to schools through an intervention framework. Rep. Almustapha Aliyu, the Chairman, House Committee on Alternative Education, said this in Abuja on Sunday.
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FG committed to returning out-of-school children to classrooms – Uwais
The Federal Government is committed to returning out-of-school children to classrooms through various interventions. Hajiya Maryam Uwais, the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Interventions made this known on Monday in Sokoto while inaugurating 1,050 facilitators training under At-Risk Children Project (ARC-P) in Sokoto state. Uwais, who is also the National Lead of…
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We have reduced number of out-of-school children to 6.9 million, FG boasts
The Federal Government Thursday stated that Nigeria’s out- of-school-children (OSC) has dropped to 6.946 million from 10.1 million. The government claimed that 3.247,590 million children, who were not in school, were enrolled within the space of a year and seven months, due to several activities undertaken by the Federal Ministry of Education. Although the government…
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10.5m children out of school in Nigeria
Mr Maulid Warfa, the Chief of United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Kano field office, says more than 10.5 million children are out of school in Nigeria. Warfa disclosed this on Friday in Kano during an event tagged ‘Youth Talk’ to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the conversation on the rights of the child. “Young people…
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10m Nigerian children are out of School – Lawan
The President of the Senate, Sen. Ahmad Lawan has decried the growing population of Nigerian children who are currently out of school, which he said stood at 10 million. Lawan said this on Tuesday, while reading his welcome address at the plenary. He said that the issue of children dropping out of schools was a…
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13.2 million children out of school in Nigeria, highest in the world
A survey has shown that the population of out of school children in Nigeria has risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million. The Demographic Health Survey(DHS) was conducted in 2015 by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Nigerian government but the result has not been officially released. But the Executive Secretary of Universal…
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Out of school children drops to 8.6 per cent in three years – Adamu
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, on Friday said out-of-school children in the country has dropped from 10.5 per cent to 8.6 per cent in the last three years. Mr. Adamu, represented by the Registrar, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, Ajiboye Josiah, said this on Friday in Bauchi at the flag-off of 2017/2018 National Enrolment…
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Nigeria has over 50% of world’s out-of-school children
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Adamu Hussaini, has disclosed that Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world. Hussaini made the disclosure yesterday at the opening of the 62nd National Council on Education (NCE) in Kano. He said it was worrisome that the situation had adversely affected efforts to meet…