The federal government has received $17 million from the World Bank to boost teen education across the nation.
Jerrymusa.com reports that the money will be used to build 20,000 classrooms nationwide and hire over 950,000 teachers, according to Minister for Education Professor Tahir Mamman, who was speaking yesterday at the Ministerial Roundtable on National Child Wellbeing organized by the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) in Abuja.
Also heavily involved in the project would be the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).
According to Sunonline Over 70 million children are denied an education, while over 21 million are not registered at birth, according to Hajia Sanusi from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs.
She claimed that the federal government has started various programs to improve the child’s condition in order to address some of these issues. Among these are the social safety net and the conditional cash transfer to raise the standard of living for children.
Remember that President Bola Tinubu just launched a massive conditional cash transfer scheme at the State House, aimed at an enormous 15 million homes across the country.
The scheme, which was publicly introduced on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, calls for each qualifying household to receive N75,000 over the course of three months.