The federal government has inaugurated a national steering committee to monitor and ensure the success of the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), project. The honorable minister of education Prof. Tahir Mamman while inaugurating, the committee in Abuja, Charged them to deliver on the job.
AGILE project is a World Bank-assisted project of the ministry of education aimed at improving secondary education opportunities for adolescent girls aged between 10 and 20.
According to our reporter, the federal government recently committed additional $700 million dollars to enhance the World Bank’s $500 million funding for the project in Nigeria. Raising the tally of the funding to 1.2 billion dollars in the country.
He went further to say that the project is a priority projects of the federal government because of its link to addressing the out of school children challenge. He also charged the states government not to allow any handicap on the project, saying that his eye will be on it.
Mr. Shubham Chaudhuri, World Bank country director to Nigeria, applauded the federal government for committing additional $700, million to enhance the project. He said the project was brought in Nigeria to help the country invest in the girl child.
AGILE Project, national coordinator, Mrs Amina Buba Haruna, said the project has impacted the lives of over 2. 4 million beneficiaries across the seven implementing states. She identified that over 1,341, 821 girls have been reached so far while 476,626 girls were giving scholarship to help them complete their education.
