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Niger gets N1.9bn grant to tackle out-of- school children

26th January 2021
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From OJohn Adams, Minna

The Federal Government has released N1.9 billion grant to Niger State Government to address the out-of-school children and improve the literacy level in the state. 

The Minister of State for Education, Mr  Chukwuemeka  Nwajuiba, who disclosed this in Minna at the flag off of the “Better Education  Service Delivery  For All” programme, said the gesture is to enable the state government to address some of the challenges facing the education sector in the state.

Nwajuiba however pointed out that the state government will have to account for the money before it can access future grants.

According to him, the state was selected among other states to benefit from the grant because of the number of out-of-school children in the state.

He disclosed that the programme is a bold step the federal government has taken to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the country, adding that “every local government in the state needs to be aware that the programme is on and every child should be in school”.

The minister maintained further that the programme “is aimed at strengthening Universal Basic Education” and was conceived in 2016 but it’s  real implementation commenced in 2018.

Nwajuiba said  the federal government introduced the policy because”education is at the heart of development and it is the most priority of the present administration”.

Said he:”Poor funding and  lack of  enough qualified teaching  staff are some of the challenges facing the education sector” but explained that government is making strenuous efforts to surmount the problems.

Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Bello, decried the high number of children that are out of school in the state and blamed the situation on parents who refuse to enrol their wards in schools.

Bello said “it is a customary thing to see many of our children roaming the streets when they are in school” urging all stakeholders to join hands with government to address the trend.

The governor promised that his administration will continue to give priority to education especially in the areas of provision of infrastructure and recruitment of qualified teaching and non teaching staff.

Chairman of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr Isah Adamu, confirmed that the state government received the N1.9 billion in two tranches in May and August 2019.

Adamu disclosed that the programme has been able to identify 206,093 out- of- school children in the state with 132,086 being male and 74,007 female pointing out that 1,599 almajiri centres were identified in 517 communities in the state.

He disclosed that so far the Board under the programme has enrolled 72,553 out-of-school children in 367 selected non formal education centres a development he described as: “ far above the expected target of 47,934 out of school children in Niger state”.

He also revealed that 1,596 facilitators “with requisite qualification” were employed and trained to teach basic literacy programme in reading and numeracy activities in non formal education centres even as the Board provided the Almajiris and girl child in the non formal centres with “school uniforms, school bags detergents bathing soaps, sanitary pads teaching and learning materials.”

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