{"id":31251,"date":"2024-05-09T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bauchi-assembly-to-pass-bill-on-reducing-out-of-school-children\/"},"modified":"2024-05-09T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T16:00:17","slug":"bauchi-assembly-to-pass-bill-on-reducing-out-of-school-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/bauchi-assembly-to-pass-bill-on-reducing-out-of-school-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Bauchi Assembly to pass bill on reducing out-of-school children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Bauchi State House of Assembly has revealed it will pass a bill to develop a framework of action to reduce the number of out-of-school children in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman House Committee on Education, Dr Nasiru Ahmed Ala, disclosed this at a two-day Regional Stakeholders Engagement Meeting on the Out-of-School Children and the Retention, Transition and Completion Models in Bauchi, Gombe and Adamawa states held at Emerald Hotel Hall, Gombe, Gombe Staten on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ala, representing the Madara\/Chinede constituency in the State Assembly, expressed deep concern over the significant number of out-of-school children in Bauchi, estimated at 1.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised the urgency of addressing the issue and highlighted the collaborative efforts of lawmakers from Adamawa and Gombe States to adopt the National Framework of Action in their respective states.<\/p>\n<p>In his remark at the workshop, the Chief of Field Office, UNICEF Bauchi Field Office, Dr Tushar Rane, reiterated the U.N agency\u2018s commitment to addressing the high rate of out-of-school children and low learning achievements, particularly in the north-east and north-west regions of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He also emphasised the importance of the workshop in providing models to guide states in tackling the out-of-school children phenomenon, enhancing community accountability and mobilization, utilizing innovations and technologies to improve access to quality education, and financing efforts to reduce out-of-school children in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Bauchi Assembly to pass bill on reducing out-of-school children<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bauchi State House of Assembly has revealed it will pass a bill to develop a framework of action to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15062,15],"tags":[2358,636,180],"class_list":["post-31251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bauchi-assembly","category-news","tag-assembly","tag-bauchi","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}