The European Union, EU, on Friday announced a grant of 20 million Euros (about N8 billion) to support education projects in Borno.
The EU Head of Cooperation, Kurt Conelus made the announcement at the inauguration of the programme in Maiduguri.
Conelus said that the three-year programme would be executed under the “European Union Support to Response, Recovery and Resilient’’ in Borno State Education component.
According to him, it is being done in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund , Plan International and Borno Government.
He said that more than 150,000 children and 2,500 teachers would directly benefit from the projects aimed at providing immediate services and strengthening education system in the state.
Earlier, the Country Director of Plan International, Orji Obureke, said that the humanitarian situation in the state needed urgent attention.
Obureke said that there was virtually no part of life that had not been adversely affected, noting that children and the young people were among the worst hit.
