65% Puipils Drop Out Of School In Katsina – UNICEF

The United Nations Children Emergency funds (UNICEF) said a total of 65 per cent of primary school pupils drop out of schools in Katsina state.
To this end, UNICEF has stressed the need for a concerted effort to stem the high rate, particularly the girl child.UNICEF’s girl child education project manager, Mrs. Terja Vallendingam, made this known when she led the executives of high level women advocates (HiLWA) from nine states in the North on an advocacy visit to Katsina monarch, Alhaji Abdulmumini Kabir Usman.
Vallendingam called on the traditional ruler to help rekindle and restore parents’ confidence in the rightful glory of education from primary to tertiary level to achieve more success in reversing the set back.
Earlier, the state chairperson of HiLWA, Hajiya Mariya Abdullahi, said the association, inaugurated in 2014 along with four other states’ chapters by UNICEF and federal government is determined to ensure improved enrolment of children, especially the girl child.
Abdullahi, who is also a former commissioner for information in the state, said HiLWA has been organizing enrolment campaigns as a strategy to reduce the number of out of school children in the state.
Receiving the team, the royal father assured the Katsina Emirate’s support for both western and Islamic education in the state and directed all district, village and ward heads in Katsina to ensure every school-age-child in their domains maintained regular school attendance.