6.9 million Nigerian children out of school – Minister

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The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, says the out-of-school children reduced from 10.1 million to 6.95 million.

“I can, however, tell you that through the BESDA initiative, we have reduced the figure of out-of-school children from 10.1 million since May 2020 to 6,946,328 million,” he said.

He said that a World Bank facility of 500 million dollars had been secured to ensure that these girls were taken off the street, trained and financially empowered to enable them live normal and quality lives. “In 2019, we were able to lift one million Nigerians off shelve of adult illiterates and 900,000 have been taken off that bracket in 2020.

“We are working on an instrument that will also make it an offence for any adult illiterate not to undertake any form of learning. Today’s illiterates will breed tomorrow’s out-of-school children,” he said.

 

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Na those pple wey de born anyhow...wey nor de gree go sch. Later de will bkom bandits and BH...

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