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Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has said the Muhammadu Buhari administration now feeds 9.8 million children daily during school hours.

This, Osinbajo said, shows full commitment of the government in ensuring basic educational development.

According to the Vice President, the introduction of free and compulsory education by Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje of Kano State is triggering educational revolution in the northern region and the country at large.

Making the assertion on Friday during the opening ceremony of a two-day stakeholders summit on free and compulsory basic and secondary education in the state, Osinbajo said, “Kano is eminently positioning to trigger educational revolution around the northern region and Nigeria in general and the Federal Government must steam the tide to make it workable.”

“The administration of Muhammadu Buhari has made heavy commitment to invest in human capital that is why any support to educational development is being viewed with all seriousness,” he said during the programme organized by the Kano State government.

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Osinbajo added that the Federal Government will soon meet its target of feeding 15 million school children daily.

He said the Buhari administration is continuously working in tandem with state governments to equip primary and secondary schools across the country with needed infrastructure to provide conducive environment for learning.

In his remarks, Governor Ganduje disclosed that the objective of the summit was to discuss, analyze, and generate ideas towards the implementation of the vision for free and compulsory basic and secondary education in the state.

The governor said since resuming his second term in office on May 29, his administration has made a policy statement and commitment to provide free and compulsory education from primary up to senior secondary level.

“This is in recognition of the pivotal role of education as the primary agent of change in our society,” the governor said

” It is disturbing to note from available statistics that Nigeria has over 10.5 million out-of-school children, it is also more alarming to note that 60 per cent of that figure represent the girl-child.

“Also, eight million of those out-of-school children are in 10 northern states of Nigeria with Kano having the lion share. Regrettably, available figures indicate that over three million of these out-of-school children are in Kano.

“However, a recent survey revealed that most of these children are Almajiris from other northern states and children from the Republic of Niger, Chad and northern part of Cameron” he said.

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