Share The Federal Government has revealed that a road map is being developed on Alternate School Programme as part of concerted effort to reduce the menace of out-of-school children in the country estimated to be over 10.2 million. The National Steering Committee on the programme held its inaugural meeting in Abuja to map out strategies and an action plan to address the challenges of out-of-school children in Nigeria and to rapidly reduce the number by providing them with quality basic education and skills in special settings not addressed in the conventional school system. In her opening remarks, the co-chairperson, convener of the meeting and Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farooq, said that Nigeria topped the list of out-of-school children in the world, hence the decision of the Federal Government to develop strategic plans by the recently inaugurated steering committee.