… Gets $17m from W’Bank to support adolescent education

The Federal Government has obtained $17 million from World Bank in support of adolescent education across the country.

Speaking yesterday at the Ministerial Roundtable on National Child Wellbeing, organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) in Abuja, Minister for Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, said that the money would be used to build 20,000 classrooms across the country and employ over 950,000 teachers across the country. Also, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) would be mobilised massively in the project.

Hajia Sanusi from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, submitted that over 70 million children are deprived of education while over 21 million are not registered at birth.

To arrest some of these challenges, she said, the Federal Government has initiated some programmes to lift the condition of the child. These include, social safetynet and the conditional cash transfer to enhance the living standard of the child.

In a significant development recently at the State House, President Bola Tinubu, inaugurated an extensive conditional cash transfer programme, targeting 15 million households across the nation. Each eligible household is slated to receive N75,000 within a three-month timeframe as part of the programme  formally unveiled on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.