UNICEF, Media Executives Meet To Strategize Campaign

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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday met with Media Executives from 10 states to renew commitment in ensuring a boost in school enrolment and birth registration of children.

UNICEF Education Specialist, Azuka Menkiti, said at the opening of the National Enrolment Drive Planning Meeting in Kaduna, that Nigeria had 10.5 million out of school children, the highest in the world.

Menkiti added that more girls were out of school than boys, particularly in the northern states, which was in contrast with southern part of the country where boys were dropping out of school.

She identified socio-cultural norms and practices, teacher quantity and quality, infrastructure and governance, as factors making schools unattractive to parents and children.

She also said that 70 per cent of children in Nigeria were not registered and provided birth certificates, saying…

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