hehehehe.......A new report has exposed the truly alarming number of children who are currently out of school.
The Federal Ministry of Education, on Monday, said Nigeria has highest number of out-of-school children in the world.
The Sun News reports that Dr. Shade Yemi-Esan, the Permanent
Secretary in the ministry, made this revelation during the opening
ceremony of the 62nd National Council on Education (NCE) meeting, in
Kano.
Dr. Shade Yemi-Esan, who was represented by Dr. Adamu Hussaini
indicated that, out of the 20 million out of school children in the
world, 10 .5 million of such children were found in Nigeria.
He said these children included the girl-child, Almajiri-child,
children of nomadic pastoralists, boy-child dropout, area boys, children
of migrant farmers and fisher men, children living with disabilities
and more recently children displaced by insurgency.
The Permanent Secretary added that although the last few decades
had witnessed a steady growth of both government and donor -driven
interventions to address the problem of access to quality education,
Nigeria was still confronted by low attendance, low attainment and low
completion rate
Speaking, Kano State Deputy Governor Prof. Hafiz Abubakar,
described the theme of the meeting as apt, noting that Nigeria, in 2015
committed itself to the implementation of the SDG at the United Nations
General Assembly.
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