THE World Bank is supporting the Federal Government with $100 million to promote girl child education.
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,
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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