The Acting Secretary of Gombe State Universal Basic Education Board, (SUBEB), Zulaihat Madugu has lamented that the Board received a report that over 450, 000 children in Gombe State are out of school while UNICEF is saying that it could be higher than that. If we continue that way, it’s not going to be well for us in the society’’. “We hope that after the training, we will have a vanguard, especially for the hard to reach communities to mobilise parents, village heads, and religious leaders to send these children to school. UNICEF has given us support and we are prepared and we hope to get the children back to school. But the challenge is keeping them in school, which we have to partner with the parents”, Mrs Zulaihatu emphasised.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 14, 2019 09:45 UTC