{"id":869812,"date":"2025-09-01T23:14:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/sokoto-govt-vows-to-end-out-of-school-syndrome\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T23:14:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T04:14:35","slug":"sokoto-govt-vows-to-end-out-of-school-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/01\/sokoto-govt-vows-to-end-out-of-school-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Sokoto govt vows to end out-of-school syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Sokoto State Government has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that every school-age child in the state is enrolled in school and completes at least basic education.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Ahmed Ala, stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.\n<\/p>\n<p>A 2023\/24 report by the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) revealed that Sokoto had 11,339 school dropouts, predominantly male students.\n<\/p>\n<p>In response, the Sokoto State Government, in collaboration with UNICEF, had verified and registered about 249,523 vulnerable children, including out-of-school adolescent girls.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to UNICEF, 113,208 of these children are Almajiri, while 136,315 are adolescent girls.<\/p>\n<p>Ala noted that the administration of Gov. Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto was fully aware of the scale of the challenge and was implementing targeted interventions to address it.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are using community leaders and parents as part of the solution. So far, we have profiled 770 of such children. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have also established a digital village and informal learning schools. We found that some children were working on farms alongside their parents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo address this, learning centres now incorporate skills acquisition programmes, where students are paired with mentors already engaged in trades of interest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is to ensure the students are mainstreamed into such businesses after learning the trade,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the initiative allowed girls to combine basic literacy education with skills such as knitting, tailoring, and air freshener production.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is also the digital village where they gain computer knowledge and skills. With that knowledge, they can run online businesses.\n<\/p>\n<p> \u201cAt the end of their training, they are given starter packs such as iPads and additional learning materials through the Nigeria Learning Passport App, an online platform,\u201d Ala said.\n<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner also disclosed that, in collaboration with civil society organisations, the state government was working to establish new libraries and strengthen existing ones to revive the reading culture among young people. (NAN)\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Oluyemi Ogunseyin<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/features\/education\/sokoto-govt-vows-to-end-out-of-school-syndrome\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sokoto State Government has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that every school-age child in the state is enrolled in school and completes at least basic education. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Prof. Ahmed Ala, stated this during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja. A 2023\/24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":869813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146020,106164],"tags":[146019,106163],"class_list":{"0":"post-869812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-out-of-school","8":"category-sokoto","9":"tag-out-of-school","10":"tag-sokoto"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/869813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}