Plan International Nigeria expresses concern over Kagara school abduction
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Abuja, 17th February 2021
Plan International Nigeria has raised concern over the kidnap of dozens of students and staff from a boarding school in Kagara, Niger state.
“It is a shame that another kidnapping of school children has occurred again in Kagara, this time in Niger state barely two months after the Kankara, Katsina state incident,” Country Director of the non-governmental organisation working on girls’ rights, Hussaini Abdu said in a statement.
Armed men reportedly stormed the Government Science College Kagara in Niger State at about 2am on Tuesday the 17th of February, 2021 taking away more than 40 students, staff and family members, according to media report.
Maryam Abeeb, Abuja
The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Arch. Sonny Echono, has revealed that preparations are being made to ensure that the country successfully hosts the forthcoming international conference on Safe Schools Declaration(SSD). Echono disclosed this in Abuja while hosting a delegation of the Deputy Heads of Mission of Norway, Argentina and Spain who visited to ascertain the country’s level of preparedness for the conference scheduled for the 25th of October, 2021. According to Arch. Echono, Committees have been set up with to handle specfic tasks in readiness for a successful 4th International conference on Safe Schools Declaration.
Education Cannot Wait and partners launch multi-year education programme to deliver education to over 800,000 children affected by crises in Burkina Faso
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ECW invests initial US$11.1 million to roll out the 3-year US$59 million programme
14 January 2021, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso – Together with the Government of Burkina Faso, UNICEF and Enfants du Monde, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) – the global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises – launched today a new multi-year programme that aims to provide education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in crisis-affected regions of the country.
The new programme benefits from an initial three-year $11.1 million allocation in seed funding from ECW to be implemented by UNICEF ($6.1 million) and Enfants du Monde ($5 million) in collaboration with UN and civil society partners. It aims to mobilize an additional $48 million from public and private donors to be fully funded and reach all targeted childr
Education Cannot Wait (ECW), the global fund dedicated to education in emergencies and protracted crises, together with the Government of Burkina Faso, UNICEF and Enfants du Monde, launched a new multi-year programme to provide education to over 800,000 children and adolescents in Burkina Faso.
The new programme benefits from an initial three-year $11.1 million allocation in seed funding from ECW to be implemented by UNICEF ($6.1 million) and Enfants du Monde ($5 million) in collaboration with UN and civil society partners. It aims to mobilize an additional $48 million from public and private donors to be fully funded and reach all targeted children and youth. Programme interventions are aligned to Burkina Faso’s