The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says it has returned 1.3 million girls to school in Northern Nigeria.
This is out of the estimated 13 million out-of-school children in the last 11 years, since the implementation of the different interventions, especially the Girl Education Project, GEP3.
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The Senior Education Manager of UNICEF Field Office in Kano, Micheal Banda, who made this known during a 3-day Media Dialogue on Girls’ Education in Katsina State, said out of the number, over 300,000 girls have been enrolled back to school in Katsina State alone.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)