Saturday, 29 March 2014

Girl’s Education Gets Boost

Nigeria has released $758 million for girl child education

programmes, the Senior Assistant to President Goodluck

Jonathan on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Dr

Precious Gbeneol revealed. Speaking at the launching of

3 million free exercise books distributed to pupils across

the 36 states of the federation and Abuja on Tuesday in

Abuja, Gbeneol said that the MDG had initiated

programmes to help Nigeria achieve Universal Basic

Education (UBEC) with focus on the issues of quality,

capacity, access and relevance.

“The MDGs made available over N113.75 billion

(about $758m) of debt relief to the Federal Ministry of

Education from 2006 to date, to implement various

programmes

“The programmes include the girl child education,

National Programme on Almajiri, support to the National

Teachers Institute and support to UBEC for the Federal

Teachers Scheme (FTS),” she said.

She noted that $14 million was invested in 261 local

government areas, with the execution of more than

15,000 high impact projects.

She also said that the projects were in the area of

education, income generation, agriculture, health,water

and sanitation sectors.

According to her, there has been a successful execution

of 12,342 water and sanitation projects nationwide with

the construction, renovation and equipping of 5,206

health facilities.

She said that funding was also provided to 1,704

beneficiaries to aid start-up of agriculture enterprises.

Gbeneol noted that the launching of the books was

another step to attain one of the mandatory targets of

the MDGs on universal primary education.




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