Nigeria: Ganduje's Free Education Society

23 August 2019
opinion

One of the major policy proclamation made by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje after securing his second mandate in office is the declaration of Free and Compulsory Education Policy in the state. Subsequently, strings of measures were introduced aimed at exploring ways of implementing the policy with a view to confronting the various problems weighing against functioning of the sector.

With unadventurously estimated over three million out-of-school children currently wandering the streets in all the 44 local government areas of the state, some for the fact that their parents either lack the financial ability to send their children to school or are disinclined to western education, the governor believes the policy could relive a big financial pain from the side of parents and ensure quality education in a free education society.

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