Education: Centre Says North-East Home To 60% Of Nigeria’s 13m Out-Of-School Children - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 5, 2020
A non-governmental organisation, NGO, the African Centre for Leadership Strategy Development, says the North-East region has about 60 per cent of the 13 million out-of-school children in the country. It said this is due to the factors of insurgency and insecurity in the area.
A baseline study conducted by thegroup, which signaled the implementation of the community-led Collective Actionfor Girl Education, indicated that Adamawa State has over 888 out-of-schoolchildren. The figure also forced the group to carry out survey in three localgovernment areas of Maiha, Song and Numan as a way of addressing the issue.
The Executive Director, MondayOsasah, at a media briefing in Yola, said the high number of out of schoolchildren in the state prompted the survey.
He noted that the NGO has trainedover 150 education stakeholders comprising traditional/religious leaders, PTAand opinion moulders as well as adult education instructors.