The conditional payment is part of the state’s Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) programme.
As part of its policy to promote girls’ attendance in school, the Bauchi State will pay 16,260 girls in secondary schools across the state, N5,000 and NN10,000 per term.
“The project aimed at assisting the students who dropped out of school due to economic problems,” Mrs Dahiru said.“The target is the poorest of the poor who do not have any means of payment of school fees and other requirements, mechanism has been put in place to determine those that will qualify. “Providing girls with critical life skills and knowledge for navigating adulthood and digital literacy at all learning platforms as well as providing financial support to poor households under the conditional cash transfer will be made effective,” Mrs Dahira narrated.
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