Nigeria: 11m Out-of-School Children in North-East Nigeria - UN

14 June 2017

The UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Mr Gordon Brown, says there are about 11 million out-of-school children in northeast Nigeria due to the destructive activities of the Boko Haram terrorists.

Brown, former British Prime Minister and chair of the Commission on Financing Education Opportunity, told the Correspondent of the Newsmen in New York that the commission was already intervening in the situation.

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