.ActionAid claims country lags in primary school enrolment
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said the country’s education system faces challenges in retention, transition and completion by students, particularly in the North East and North West regions of the country.
Speaking during a two-day regional stakeholders’ meeting on out-of-school children and retention, transition and completion models in Bauchi, Gombe and Adamawa states, UNICEF’s Bauchi Chief of Field Office, Tushar Rane, said the situation had become worse compared to a decade ago.
Rane said the meeting was to bring out a collective commitment to create and implement models for the reduction of out-of-school children and increasing the retention, transition and completion of adolescents in secondary education.
According to him, a staggering 10.2 million primary school-age children, and 8.1 million…
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