This came as the Federal Government concluded arrangements to establish political structures to coordinate education policies across the country.
World Bank representative
in Nigeria, Tunde Adekola, who disclosed this when international development
partners visited the Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, in Abuja,
weekend, said, “The World Bank will strengthen girl child education with $100
million. In the next three years, there should not be any reason for any girl
child not to be in schools.”
Adekola also said the bank
would advance and focus on post-basic education, with special attention given
to technical and vocational studies., adding, “We need to engage in strategies
that will find evidence(s) to properly account for 10.5milion figure of
out-of-school children.”
He said international
development partners, including the British Council, the USAID, the World Bank,
DFID and UNICEF, would give 100 per cent support to the the federal government
on the proposed arrangement.
Adekola noted that
education in Nigeria had been dichotomised and that the international
development partners, IDPs, played the role of supporting the government in
basic and post-basic education system.
Meanwhile, the Federal Government has
concluded plans to establish political structures to coordinate education
policies across the country.
The Minister of Education,
Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, who disclosed this while receiving a team of international
development partners in Abuja, said the Federal Government’s Almajiri school
system initiative had been a huge success.
He said to strengthen girl
child education, the World Bank had promised to support Nigeria $100 million,
adding that high level legislation was required to initiate compulsory
commonality towards restructuring and easy coordination of the programme across
the federation.
He said: “Only common strategy can make the Almajiri
school system more impactful.”
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