More than one million out-of-school children have been re-enrolled to their respective schools by the Federal Government, FG, to acquire better education.
The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba, disclosed this while flagging of the Better Education Service Delivery For All, BESDA, in Minna, the Niger State capital.
The Minister said that, Better Education Service Delivery For All, BESDA, was initiated by the present administration in two thousand and eighteen, to improve the enrollment of school-aged children in schools.
Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba noted that, the Federal Government has already set aside, a large sum of money, for the various states to access, after a careful screening.
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The Minister added that the Federal Government has provided six million dollars to Niger State alone , to implement the BESDA Programme fully, according to specifications.
In his reaction, the Niger State Governor Abubakar Bello, assured that his administration will always pay the desired counterpart funding, to benefit maximally from the programme.
Edited by Tunde Orebiyi.
