Tag: out of school children
UNICEF partners SUBEB to enrol 194,883 Adamawa out-of-school children
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) said it has tracked and enrolled 194,883 out-of-school children in five Local Government Areas (LGAs) of...
Kano bans street begging almajiri children
Towards consolidating on its free and compulsory primary and secondary school education programme in Kano State, Governor Abdullahi Ganduje has banned...
Parents who don’t enrol their children in school may be prosecuted...
The Kaduna State Government has advised parents to send their children to school or face prosecution in accordance with extant laws.
Bauchi opens 1160 learning centres for out-of-school children
The Bauchi State Chairman State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Abubakar Surumbai Dahiru has said the board is to open 1160 learning...
‘It’s political’: Education ministry official tackles Kano on ‘reduced’ out-of-school children...
A senior official at Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Education has faulted recent claims by the Kano State government that the number of...
Kano govt claims out-of-school children dropped to 410,873
The Kano State government has claimed that the number of out-of-school children in the state had reduced to 410,873.
More boys are out of school than girls in Nigeria
There are more boys out of school than girls in Nigeria, government data shows.
On a state by state...
A lot of ‘out of school children’ are in low cost...
Olusola Bankole is the Chairman of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). In this...
38% of out-of-school children in Nigeria are girls
38% of Nigeria's out of school children are girls. This represents 3.85 million of the 10.19 million children out-of-school in the country.
Senate wants vocational centres empowered to curb street begging
Nigerian Senate has charged the Federal Government on the promulgation of a policy to use vocational education to curb street begging.