THE Federal Government says it has developed a national framework for addressing the menace of out-of-school children in Nigeria. Director of Social Mobilization, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Alhaji Bello Kagara, who made this known in Abuja lamented that the out-of-school children syndrome seems to have defied the various strategies put in place by government at several levels to address it. Kagara said in addition to developing a national framework for addressing the syndrome, a programme was developed by the commission for engaging the E-9 countries on the out-of-school children. He said considering that the northern Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children, a Northern Nigeria Traditional Leaders’ conference was held in October, 2018, to seek ways to end the menace. He noted that the attention of UBEC is now focused on community engagement because that is where majority of basic education delivery activities really take place.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 03, 2019 01:18 UTC