Out-of-School Children

Gombe State has launched a free registration and enrolment campaign to tackle its rising out-of-school children crisis, with official figures putting the number at over 787,000. The initiative, flagged off …

Kano State Government has taken a bold step towards reducing the high number of out-of-school children by approving the procurement of free school uniforms worth over N1.1 billion for primary …

Every day, Muhammadu, Abdullahi and Hassan Darkin Daura chase hopes for a better future by playing football. They are not just playing football for the fun of it. The boys …

The Centre for Girls Education, Zaria, has called for the creation of a harmonised and reliable database on out-of-school children, expressing concerns that the current figures, particularly in northern Nigeria, …

Niger State government has set a target to enrol about 600,000 out-of-school children back to school in collaboration with the World Bank-assisted Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE). …