Malala Takes Campaign To Nigerian Education Minister

Publisher:
Channels.tv
Publication Date:
15 July 2014
Tags:
Nigeria, NGOs and Civil Society, Governance, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Women and Gender, Education

Officials of the Malala Foundation have decried Nigeria's ranking as one of the countries with the worst figure of out-of-school children in the world. The officials expressed their views during the visit of Pakistan girls' education activist, Malala Yousafsai, to the Minister of Education in Abuja. Members of the foundation, officials from the United Nations and the Department for State Services were on a fact-finding mission to the Ministry of Education as part of activities to mark the Malala Day in Abuja. The team questioned the Federal Government's strategies on education and sought to know why it was yet to achieve significant success in tackling the challenge of access to education and enrollment of the 10.5 million out-of-school children in the country.

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