Published 2 years ago

18.5 Million Nigerian Children Are Out of School, UNICEF Says

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UNICEF: About 18.5 million children, the majority of whom are girls, do not have access to education. Attacks on schools by jihadists and criminal gangs in the north have harmed children's education, UNICEF says. In the predominantly Muslim north, only one in four girls from "poor and rural families" completes middle school.

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Nigeria Has 18.5 Million Children Out Of School, 60% Girls: UNICEF

More than 18.5 million children in Nigeria have no access to education, with girls accounting for more than half the number, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.

2 years ago·New Delhi, India

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VOA News

18.5 Million Nigerian Children Are Out of School, UNICEF Says

About 18.5 million children, the majority of whom are girls, do not have access to education in Nigeria, a figure up sharply compared with 2021, the U.N children's fund says. Last year, UNICEF estimated that 10.5 million children were out of school in Africa's most populous country. "Currently in Nigeria, there are 18.5 million out-of-school children, 60% of whom are girls," Rahama Farah, the head of the UNICEF office in Kano, told reporters Wed…

2 years ago·United States

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allAfrica

Nigeria: Ten Million Nigerian Girls Are Out of School

"Currently in Nigeria, there are 18.5 million out of school children, 60 per cent of these out of school children are girls - that is over 10 million girls are out of school.

2 years ago·South Africa

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Jornal de Notícias

Over 18 million children in Nigeria don't go to school

About 18.5 million children, mostly girls, are deprived of access to education in Nigeria, a figure that increased by nearly 80% in one year, the UN agency warned for children.

2 years ago·Portugal

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The Citizen

Nigeria has 18.5 million children out of school -UNICEF

More than 11,000 schools have closed in Nigeria due to insecurity since December 2020, UNICEF said last month.

2 years ago·South Africa

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Pulse Nigeria

UNICEF laments 10 million girls out of school in Nigeria

Nigeria has a record of 18.5 million out of school childrenThe United Nations agency for children (UNICEF) says Nigeria has a record of 18.5 million out of school children out of which 10 million are girls, with most of them from northern parts of the country.According to the Head of UNICEF Kano field office, Rahamah Muhammed Farah, in Nigeria, girls bear what he describes as a sizeable burden of the challenges that confront the education sector…

2 years ago·Nigeria

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