The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) says there is a urgent need for quality learning and education in Nigeria.
Country Representative of the Fund in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, who made this claim on Friday, at the wrap of the UNICEF’s Girls Education Project, GEP3 in Abuja, lamented that most students in Basic school are not receiving the needed knowledge.
Referencing a recent study, Munduate said only one-third of the 1.6 million children recently enrolled through its project have good learning achievements.
Three-fourths of that figure still have huge gaps in understanding what they are reading or learning, fluency or even basic mathematical operations.
In her words, “If you have a child that goes to school, especially a girl, this brings wellness and hope to the family, it will prevent early marriage or teenage pregnancies that lead to complications.
”We no longer want to see girls breeding children and raising babies when they themselves are just children. Our plan is for girls to develop according to their ages.
“There must be zero tolerance for practices that take girls out of school because we are making girls suffer, making them become adults before they are adults”, Munduate said.
