By Joseph Erunke THE number of out-of-school children in the country which stood at 10.1 million in 2019,reduced drastically to 6.946 million in 2020,the federal government has said. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, who disclosed this,Thursday,in Abuja,at the annual Ministerial press briefing on the ministry’s activities in 2020, attributed the development to the number of measures undertaken by government to ensure enrollment of children. According to him,the sum of $611 million secured through the World Bank credit facility to support Universal Basic Education (UBE), recorded a massive enrollment of out-of-school children in 17 states. Adamu,who also disclosed that efforts of the National Association of Proprietors and School Owners of Nigeria,NAPSON, alone saw to the enrollment of one million children, also noted that 900,000 Nigerians were “taken off the shelve” of adult illiterates in 2020.