The United Nations Children’s 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.
UNICEF’s 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 efforts saw to enrolment of 1.5 million girls, adding that another 5 million children continued learning during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He said the new programme “will ensure that the rights of every child in Nigeria especially the most excluded , to survive, thrive, learn, be protected and develop to his or her full potential”.
Speaking on some of the UNICEF massive interventions in Nigerian health sector, Njoku millions of Nigerian children were vaccinated through the support of the UN agency.
According to him, 58 million children were vaccinated against polio, adding that UNICEF also achieved zero-dose strategy in 100 local government areas to reach underserved children across 18 states.
“22 million children also received two doses of Vitamin A in 2022”, he added.
The UNICEF-sponsored media dialogue attracted scores of journalists, resource persons, among others, from far and near.
