Tag: OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

“20m out-of-school children recruitment pool for Boko Haram” – Obasanjo

Aminu Imam
OBJ on out of school children

Former Nigeria’s President, Olusegun Obasanjo, says the growing number of out-of-school children in the country poses a great security risk for the nation in the future. He said that the over 20 million out-of-school children in Nigeria are only being prepared for recruitment into Boko Haram and banditry in the next 10 to 15 years. The former president said this in Bauchi yesterday, at the commissioning ceremony of some selected projects executed by Governor Bala Mohammed. He said, “Let me emphasise what we want to do, human capacity building, education…

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“Nigeria’s 20m out-of-school children, a time bomb”, Shettima warns

Aminu Imam
Shettima warns

…Seeks 20% budgetary allocation to education Vice-President Kashim Shettima has described Nigeria’s over 20 million out-of-school children as a time bomb requiring immediate solution. Shettima, who spoke at an international conference on girl child education in Nigeria, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said if not addressed, the menace poses a threat to the children’s peers in future Shettima said Nigeria’s statistics of out-of-school children was a stark reminder of the urgency of actions needed to curb the rising rate. Checks show that states in the North-West and North-East face the…

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‘1.6m children out-of-school in North-East’ – UNICEF

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF), has warned that 1.6 million children in the North-East region are not attending school. UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in Maiduguri, Borno State, Phuong Nguyen, revealed this on Wednesday, during a Foundation Literacy and Numeracy in the North-East seminar held in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. She said: “At least 1.6 million children are out of school in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe States. Of those in school, 72% cannot read a simple text after grade 6. Without acquiring appropriate foundational and transferable skills, children…

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“20 million out-of-school children are Boko Haram of the future” – Obasanjo

Aminu Imam

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, yesterday, declared that the issue of 20 million-out-of-school children in Nigeria might culminate into another monster of Boko Haram insurgency if the students were not sought and put back to school. Obasanjo, who spoke as a panelist at the National Summit on Tertiary Education Reform, said the number constituted 10 percent of the country’s population which should not be ignored. Responding to a disclosure that a loan bill was still in the works to help indigent students fund their education, Obasanjo wondered if the right people…

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Out-of-School children in Nigeria hits 10m – FG

Aminu Imam

The Minister of State for Education, Chukuemeka Nwajiuba, has said that Nigeria has more than 10 million out-of-school children, the highest in sub-Saharan Africa. Nwajiuba made this known at the launching of Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) by the Jigawa State government, in Dutse, the State capital, yesterday. According to him, “With an estimated 10,193,918 children out-of-school, Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Nwajiuba, however, urged stakeholders to strengthen the quality of education by addressing factors that denied children access to basic education.   …

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‘Nigeria has the most out-of-school children in the world’ – Minister

Aminu Imam

The Minister of humanitarian affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiyya Farouq, has said that Nigeria tops the list of out-of-school children in the world. She said the alarming figure informed the decision of the Federal Government to set up a committee that would develop plans to address the challenges. Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the National Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme, (ASP), in Abuja on Monday, Farouq, who is the co-chairperson of the committee explained that the committee would come up with plans that would help reduce the number…

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Kano state varsity, FCE Bichi, to collaborate on Out-of-school children project

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Federal College of Education (FCE Technical) Bichi and the Kano sate-owned Yusuf Maitama Sule University, are to establish an International Study Centre for out-of-school children in Kano State, according to a statement by Hajiya Fatima Hassan, the Public Relations Officer of the FCE. The statement, issued to newsmen on Sunday in Kano, stated that the collaboration was expressed when the Vice Chancellor (VC) of the University, Professor Mukhtar Atiku, paid a courtesy visit to the FCE provost, Professor Bashir Muhammad-Fagge in Bichi. The statement said that the proposed centre…

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