MAIDUGURI, Nigeria & NAIROBI, Feb 23 (IPS) - Nigeria is home to 15 percent of the world’s out-of-school children. More than 7.6 million girls are not in school, and only nine percent of the poorest girls in the country are in secondary school. The Boko Haram insurgency and other armed groups fuel the out-of-school crisis in northeast Nigeria, disrupting the education of nearly two million school-age children.
Boko Haram insurgency and other armed groups fueled the out-of-school crisis in northeast Nigeria, disrupting the education of nearly 2 million children.