The Federal Government on Sunday announced $20m in funding from the Global Partnership for Education for schools in the North East as part of its plan to implement the safe school initiative.
In a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, commended some states and the Federal Capital Territory for their contributions towards the creation of safe schools in the country.
He said;
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“The goal of Nigerian education is to build a free and democratic society; a just and egalitarian society; a united, strong, and self-reliant nation; and a great and dynamic economy for progress; a united and self-reliant nation; and the nation a land of opportunity for all its people.
“Adamu said that a secure, peaceful, and safe environment is absolutely necessary in order to guarantee the provision of equal access to educational opportunities for all Nigerian citizens, arguing that the schools must be made safe and secured at all costs.
“The HME recalled that following last year’s approval of a National Policy on School Safety and Violence Free Schools in Nigeria and its Implementation Guidelines and the domestication of the Safe Schools Declaration in Nigeria, the Federal Ministry of Education in October 2021, hosted an international conference on the SSD to share experience and knowledge with other Sahel countries in addressing attacks on education.”
Recall that the safe school initiative was launched in 2014 at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Nigeria by a coalition of Nigerian business leaders, working with the UN Special Envoy for Global Education, Gordon Brown, the Global Business Coalition for Education, and A World at School.
It was set up in response to the growing number of attacks on the right to education, including the kidnapping of more than 200 girls from a secondary school in northern Nigeria.
