Kano State has at least 989,234 out-of-school children, UNICEF’s Country Representative in Nigeria, Ms Cristian Munduate, said in Kano on Thursday.
Munduate said Nigeria needed to redouble efforts in addressing the critical issue of out-of-school children and improve investments in the education sector.The country representative added that 1.5 million girls were enrolled in schools under UNICEF’s Girls’ Education Project Phase 3, implemented between 2012 and 2022.
Munduate noted that in the health sector, Kano State had 484 Primary Healthcare Centres in its 484 political wards. “The PHCs must be staffed by adequate number of skilled birth attendants to provide antenatal care, delivery and postnatal care services.