FG to increase school enrollment by 13.6m children by 2020

The Federal government plans to increase school enrolment in the country by 13.6m children by the year 2020.

The focal person of the federal government’s Social Intervention Investment Programme for Niger state Mrs. Afiniki Dauda who disclosed this in Minna on Wednesday said the government also planned to ensure that these pupils were physically and mentally fit to face the challenges of education and life.

“This is one of the reason why the federal government introduced the ‘ home grown school feeding and health Programme and other social security schemes”, Mrs. Dauda said.

She however did not give the figure of children presently in schools across the country.

Exchanging views with newsmen after assuming office as the Focal Person for the federal government programmes in Niger state Mrs Dauda said the administration of President Muhammad Buhari was also determined to bring back into the school system 11.4 m children mostly girls in order to prepare them for ‘tomorrow’ and ‘ discourage them from being involved in criminal activities.

She disclosed that the Niger state office of the the federal government agency had taken off and that the first activity to be performed is the flag-off the empowerment scheme for which participants in its first phase have been selected.

The Focal Person explained that the participants were drawn from the three senatorial zones of the state based on the statistic on the poor and vulnerable of the society provided by the World Bank.

Mrs. Dauda did not give the number of beneficiaries that would benefit under the first phase but insisted that the empowerment scheme would be flagged off next week.

She assured the people of the state that the federal government agency would be “fair and just to all the stakeholders’ adding that ‘President Muhammad Buhari is seriously committed to wiping out poverty from our country.

“We need the cooperation everyone for these programmes to succeed”, she said.

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