FG, World Bank Earmark $100 Million to Aid Girl-Child Education in Northern Nigeria

According to an official of World Bank, Dr Tunji Adekola, the federal government and the World Bank have earmarked over $100 million for girl-child education in five northern states. He said the initiative would be implemented under the Nigeria Partnership For Education Project. The benefiting states are Sokoto, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Kaduna.

‘’The project is also aimed at improving equity in education, as well as ensuring uniformity in access for all. This is to bring back the out- of- school children to schools thereby improving gender parity between boys and girls,’’ he said.

 Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal  disclosed that the state government has provided the sum of N75 million as counterpart funding for the project, also that the state government would provide N50 million annually to support other components of the project. The project would also be used to fully integrate the Quranic schools into the formal education system.

The governor further said the state government declared state of emergency in the education sector due to the poor state it had been in the state.

He said that the issues of teacher training and retraining, teacher-welfare and the schools’ feeding programme are among the top provisions under the state of emergency.