A religious leader, Pastor Daniel Umukoro in Abraka community of Delta state on Monday, alleged that in the last four years, N4.4t trillion had been spent on the education sector in Nigeria, saying that even with the funds, the nation still has the highest number of out -of -school children. Pastor Umukoro, president of Success […]
Though the alarm raised by President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, on the danger posed to the well-being of Nigeria by the increasing number of out-of-school children may not be new, his concern and that of other senators show that it is time for all hands to be on deck to eliminate the syndrome once […]
Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna state on Wednesday reiterated that his administration would jail parents who refuse to enrol their children in school. The governor, who made the remarks in Kaduna at the opening of a public hearing on the state’s social protection policy document, said his administration would not allow anyone to toy with […]
A non-governmental organization, High Level Women Advocate (HiLWA) has decried the high rate of out-of-school children, school drop outs and Qur’anic school pupils not enrolled into the basic education system in Katsina state. HiLWA Chairperson, Hajia Mariya Abdullahi, stated this at a news conference as part of activities lined up to commemorate the 2020 International […]
Senator representing Imo East Senatorial District at the 9th Nigerian Senate, and former governor of Imo State, Rochas Anayo Okorocha, has said any child that is out of school is a time bomb to his generation. The Senator said government must take urgent steps to address the alarming rate of out of school children in Nigeria which […]
Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State revealed that, the out-of-school children menace faces serious drop from 1,306,106 to 410,873, from 2015 to 2019 after the introduction of free and compulsory education in the state. According to the National Education Data Survey (NEDS) Report of 2015 which showed that, Kano had (then) the highest number of […]
The Niger Government on Wednesday said it has received a six million dollar World Bank grant to get the teeming out-of-school children in the state back to classroom. Alhaji Abubakar Aliyu, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education disclosed this during an interview in Minna. Aliyu said that the grant would be utilised by the State Universal […]
Nigeria with the current figure of 13.2million out-of-school children occupies first position on the table of countries with the highest number of out-of-school children in the world certainly calls for sober reflection. More worrisome is the fact that the figure instead of decreasing in the last few years is rather increasing. This statistics which represent […]
Education Above All (EAA), a foundation founded by Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser of Qatar has unveiled a programme targeting 10 million Out-of-School children in Nigeria, Ghana and other countries across the world. Sheikha Moza who is also a United Nations Sustainable Development Goal advocate and Chairperson of EAA Foundation, alongside partners, announced that […]