Jigawa, Kano, Katsina top list of out-of-school children – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says Jigawa, Kano and Katsina, are states with the highest fig of out-of-school children.

This is arsenic UNICEF stressed that urgent concern successful aboriginal puerility acquisition remained captious to turning the tide.

It said that Nigeria presently accounts for astir 18.3 cardinal out-of-school children, the highest fig globally.

An acquisition advisor with UNICEF Kano Field Office, Aisha Abdullahi, disclosed this astatine a two-day dialog for journalists from Jigawa, Kano and Katsina states.

She spoke portion presenting a insubstantial connected instauration learning and skills development, noting that the states unsocial lend astir 30 per cent of the figure, driven by poverty, insecurity, taste barriers, and mediocre schoolhouse readiness.

Abdullahi stressed that Early Childhood Care, Development and Education, ECCDE, offers a strategical and semipermanent solution, susceptible of preventing children from falling retired of the acquisition strategy earlier they adjacent begin.

She emphasised that tackling the situation requires a displacement from reactive interventions to preventive strategies, with aboriginal puerility acquisition forming the bedrock of lifelong learning.

“Early puerility acquisition is not conscionable a preparatory signifier but a strategical interven...