Governors proffer solution to Nigeria’s education challenge

To tackle the menace of out-of-school children in the country, the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) has called on its members to allocate 15% of state budgets to education.

The Chairman of the Forum, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq made this call during a briefing organized by the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja on Wednesday.

It was organised by the Federal Ministry of Education in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Fund, with the theme: “Scaling Foundational Literacy and Numeracy in Nigeria.”