Reps To Re-enroll 14m Out Of School Children 

Edited By Oduyemi Odumade

The House of Representatives says it is working on a framework that will ensure over 14 million out-of-school Nigerian children are back to school.

A statement by the Chairman House Committee on Alternative Education, Mr. Almustapha Ibrahim Aliyu says plans are underway to also train out-of-school children on relevant skills.

According to the statement, the Green Chamber will partner with relevant government agencies to ensure access to education for all Nigerian children, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs-4) on qualitative and inclusive education for all.

The project is tagged ‘Nigeria Mass Reduction of Out-of-School Children and Youth Project’, NiMPROP, proposed to last for four years and will cover the six geopolitical zones of the country.

It states that government agencies on the intervention project are the National Commission of Almajiri and out-of-school children, the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, and the National Commission for Nomadic Education.

”Based on the statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), the Northeast leads in the poverty index with 71.86 percent of its population in poverty, followed by the Northwest with 64.84 percent, while the North Central has 42.70 percent. Others are: South East, 42.44%; South South, 21.28% and South West, 12.12%.

“The intervention targets the reduction of poverty as follows: Northeast, 4 million people; North West, 3.4m people; North Central, 2.5m; South East, 3m; South-South, 2.1m, and South West, 1.6m.