Nigeria: North East out-of-school children records drop — UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has announced a significant drop in the number of out-of-school children in the North East region, from over 3 million to 2 million.

Speaking in Maiduguri on Wednesday at the launch of the GPE-AF project, Officer-in-Charge of the UNICEF Borno Field Office, Gilmar Teddy Cruz, attributed this progress to the successful implementation of the GPE-AF project, which aimed to increase access to education for 1.5 million out-of-school children in the…