NAN-H-94
Education
Abuja, Nov. 16, 2017 (NAN) Stakeholders in the education sector will converge in Abuja to strategise on the best ways to improve education standard in the country, Mr Joseph Owoicho, the Coordinator, Nigeria Partnership for Education Project (NIPEP), has said.
Owoicho told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja that the meeting would hold from Nov. 17 to Nov. 23.
NIPEP is the implementing agency for the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) Fund, an international NGO that recently supported the Federal government with 100-million-dollar grant for the eradication of illiteracy in the northern region.
NAN learnt that 12,000 schools from Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Jigawa and Sokoto would benefit from the programme.
Owoicho said that the stakeholders would give reports on progress and challenges recorded so far in the cause of implementing the project in their various states.
According to him, the meeting, expected to attract no fewer than 90 participants, will open with a two-day workshop for gender desk officers from the participating states.
He said that the establishment of gender desks was necessary as girl-child education was paramount in the project which also aims to enhance education quality across the northern part of the country. (NAN)
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