The permanent secretary of the ministry of education, Mr Sonny Echono, addresses journalists on the out-of-school children in Abuja on April 12, 2019.The Federal Government says it is making efforts to determine the exact number of children that are out of school nationwide.
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mr Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Friday while addressing a press conference in Abuja, the nation’s capital. He noted that the current administration is committed to addressing the conflicting figures of out-of-school children in the country, ranging from 10 -13 million.“In the last four years, swe have been making efforts to determine the exact number of out-of-school children.
“As I said earlier, we acknowledge that the issue has constituted a stumbling block in terms of planning for the out-of-school children nationwide and for the global reporting on the phenomenon,” he stated. Echono, however, said that the Federal Government its relevant agencies like the Universal Basic Education Commission , the National Population Commission , the National Bureau of Statistics is to unravel the actual figures of the affected children.More on Local
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Have you make any effort to determine the number of children in school, the number if teachers at school in fact the number of all Nigerians? Get us a database
If the number is determined, then what happens next?
All I see here is money
That's why we have to get serious with having reliable data
🤣🤣 in their dream.
How do you want to know the exact number of out of School children when you have not establish the exact number of the country's population. Hypocrites.
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