UNICEF positions Nigeria as?World?s number two?in child marriage
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said that Nigeria has the second biggest number of youngster ladies on the planet, with 23 million young ladies and ladies wedded out as kids in the nation, along these lines finishing their instructive endeavor.
Bhanu Pathak, Chief of Field Office (CFO) UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office, expressed this in Bauchi on Saturday at a Youth Talk service sorted out in remembrance of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
"An excessive number of Nigerian kids and youngsters are by and large abandoned, particularly with regards to instruction. Nigeria has the world's most elevated number of out-of-younger students; more than 10.5 million Nigerian kids are not in school.
"Nigeria likewise has the second biggest number of kid ladies on the planet with 23 million young ladies and ladies wedded as kids, and all things considered, finishing their training," said Pathak.
He emphasized UNICEF's determination to cultivate a more grounded association with the Nigerian government at the bureaucratic and state levels for the acknowledgment of kids' privileges. In his comments, Sagir Musa, the President, Youth Advocates For Education, Bauchi, stated, the difficulties of youngsters included high pace of joblessness, absence of essential fundamental abilities, tranquilize misuse, political thuggery and lack of education among others.
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