Tag: GIRL EDUCATION

World Bank allocates $1.2bn for girls’ education in Nigeria

Aminu Imam
World Bank allocates

The World Bank has announced that it has earmarked $1.2 billion for investment in girls’ education across 18 States. The States include: Borno, Ekiti, Kebbi, Kaduna, Plateau, Katsina, Kano, Adamawa, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Bauchi, Jigawa, Yobe, Kwara, Gombe, Sokoto and Zamfara. The World Bank Country Director, Ndiame Diop, disclosed this on Friday, at the relaunch of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) programme in Abuja. Diop, represented by the Bank’s senior social protection specialist, Tina George, said the initiative aims to provide comprehensive support to enhance adolescent…

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UNICEF spends $109m on Girl Education in the North

Aminu Imam

…To establish menstrual banks in Nigerian schools The Senior Education Manager, United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) Kano Field Office, Michael Banda, has said the agency spent $109 million for the implementation of the Girl Education Project 3 (GEP) in six Northern States of Nigeria. Banda, who disclosed this during a Media Dialogue on Girls Education in Bauchi on Friday, said the money was expended on the project within a period of 10 years of its existence. The Education Manager, who stated that the project was carried out under the funding…

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Media Practitioners brainstorm on obstacles to girl education in Kaduna

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Over 30 media practitioners in Kaduna State are brainstorming on girl education and obstacles with aim to finding means to filling the gaps and removing the obstacles.Speaking at the event holding in Zaria, Co-Chair of Open Government Partnership, Hadiza Umar said the media are part and parcel of partnership, engage, reform and learn, to have a seamless relationship with, take advantage of to identify, disseminate challenges on girl education.The Chief Executive of Kaduna Open Radio and Jalad Media, Joshua James said the Open Government Development Partnership OGDP has led to…

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