Nigeria: Poverty Hindering Girl Child Education in Zamfara - Group

28 January 2016

The High Level Women Advocacy, a group sponsored by UNICEF, on Thursday said the high level of poverty in Zamfara is limiting access to education by school-aged girls in the state.

The leader of the group, Suwaiba Barau made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Gusau.

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