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February 19, 2020
TheFederal Government has selected six northern states for the pilot phase of itsOpen Schooling Programme, OSP.
Theprogramme which was launched in early 2019 is an open learning programme aimedat reducing the high number of out-of-school children in the country.
Thebeneficiaries, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Kano, Adamawa and Niger, are among the10 states which, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF areworst hit by the problem.
Accordingto UNICEF, eight million children are out of school in the 10 endemic states,which include Bauchi, Zamfara, and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.
Theprogeramme is a collaborative effort between the government, through theUniversal Basic Education Commission, UBEC and the Commonwealth of Learning,COL, an educational development platform of The Commonwealth.
TheExecutive Secretary of UBEC, Hamid Bobboyi, said the intervention was informedby government’s concern about the high number of out-of-school children in thecountry.