– The World bank has boosted Nigeria’s education system to the tune of $500million
– The gesture, the bank explained is to build education in the Northern Nigeria, especially the girl child education
– The programme is to last for five years
World Bank has boosted Nigeria’s education system with the provision of $500million loan.
Daily Trust is reporting that the loan was given to Nigeria under the World Bank’s Better Education For All project.
Senior Education Specialist of the World Bank, Olatunde Adekola, said the project is to mop up out-of-school-children and would focus essentially on Northern Nigeria with preference for girl child education.
Almajiri school in the North
Adekola made the revelation when he led a five man World Bank team to visit the Governor of Sokoto state, Aminu Tambuwal.
He said Nigeria’s problems were mostly education related and the five year project was aimed at reversing the trend.
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”The project would be result-oriented and ensure that children are able to read and write,” he said, adding, ‘This is to help the government to strengthen its service delivery mechanisms to children, girls, women and other vulnerable groups,” Adekola had said.
Adekola commended the Sokoto state government ‘s allocation of about 27 per cent of the state’s annual budget to education in 2016 and 2017.
In a remark, Governor Tambuwal assured that the existing partnership between the bank and the state government would be sustained.
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