Save the Children, a humanitarian agency has said about 2.2 million school-aged children and teachers needs emergency educational support
The humanitarian agency also said over 800 schools in Borno State are non-functional mainly due to inaccessibility as a result of insecurity.
”Statistics according to the Humanitarian Needs Overview estimates that 2.2 million school aged children and teachers in North-eastern Nigeria need immediate education in emergency support,” she said. The document was adopted on November 20, 1989 by the UN General Assembly, and was ratified by 194 state parties, except Somalia.Photo credit -Save the Children
PREMIUM TIMES reported how the insurgents stormed the Government Secondary School, Chibok, and abducted over 200 girls on April 14, 2014.
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