Tag: Schoolchildren

UNICEF targets 10m Nigerian children in new 4-year education programme

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) has rolled out a new educational programme aimed at attracting 10 million Nigerian children to school within the next four years. The new country programme, which will run from 2023 to 2027, is expected to massively cut down on the alarming out-of-school children rate in Nigeria. UNICEFs Communication Specialist, Dr. Geoffrey Njoku, made this known in Kano on Monday, during a two-day media dialogue on the status of implementation of the Child Rights Law across the country. Njoku also said that the UN agency…

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20.2 million children, youths are out of school in Nigeria – UNESCO

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, (UNESCO), has lamented that an estimated 20.2 million Nigerian children and youths are currently out of school, according to a new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). The report, which was published on the UNESCO website yesterday, decried that as the new school year begins in many parts of the world, of the total 244 million out-of-school children and youth between the ages of 6 and 18 around the world Nigeria has over 20 million. The new…

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‘Nigeria has over 11m out-of-school children; highest globally’ World Bank

Aminu Imam

The international financial institution, the World Bank, has disclosed that Nigeria has more than 11 million out-of-school (OSS) children, the highest of any country in the world. The global bank, which disclosed this in a document titled: Nigeria Development Update (June 2022): The Continuing Urgency of Business Unusual., said, this is despite the expansion in access to education during the last few decades. The World Bank said more efforts need to be made to ensure Nigerias children are back to school. Although Nigeria has experienced a significant expansion in access…

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Basic education: Nigeria may not achieve global agenda by 2030, UNICEF laments

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Childrens Funds, (UNICEF), in collaboration with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office in Nigeria, has stated that despite the progress made, Nigeria is not likely to achieve the global agenda of universal inclusive and equitable quality basic education for all school-age children by 2030 if the current very low public investment in the education sector remains the same. At a media dialogue on girls education, which was held on Wednesday, in Katsina, a Communication Specialist at the UNICEF Field Office, Munta?a Munta?a, disclosed that the Students Learning…

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Insecurity: 1 million school children afraid to return to school following resumption -UNICEF

Aminu Imam

The United Nations Childrens Fund, (UNICEF), has said at least one million, among more than 37 school children in Nigeria, are afraid to return to school as schools resume. The fears by the children to return to schools, the agency said, is a result of insecurity in the country, especially abductions that had taken place in various schools in some parts so far. UNICEF, in a statement issued yesterday by its Representative in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, said it was joining in a global digital freeze on 16 September to protest…

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