The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved additional funding for the training and empowerment of adolescent girls in the country.
Prof. Tahir Mamman, Minister of Education disclosed this while addressing State House Correspondents on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja presided over by President Bola Tinubu.
The minister explained that the program was meant to empower girls, and teachers and the provision for additional schools in the country.
“Two things I want to mention and comment on, which are very important parts of the deliberations and resolutions in the council today.
“One, is additional funding for the training and empowerment of adolescent girls in Nigeria. One of the major policies of the government is to target the education, training, and empowerment of young girls in society.
“Initially from seven participating states, we will now have about 11 additional states participating in this project, which will lead to the empowerment of girls between 10 and 20, right across the participating states,” Mamman said.
He also said that President Tinubu’s administration was working assiduously to reduce the incidents of out-of-school children in the country.
“It is actually quite in line with part of the agenda of this government to ensure that the number of girls and people who are out of school is reduced, if not eliminated.
“Today, the council took a very major decision to review policy so that the Public Procurement Act is brought into practice as it were, as to the handling of projects and government activities in Nigeria,” he said.
On his part, Mr Wale Edun, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, confirmed that FEC approved funding for the training and empowerment of adolescent girls.
“There was a project for adolescent girls’ initiative for learning and empowerment, essentially, as it says, it is a program to support young girls from the age of 11 to secondary school age.
“It is to ensure that at the end of their schooling, they have one skill or the other that is marketable, as well as the academic laurels.
“The first one was very successful. It was all about empowering women, upscaling their skill level, and of course, giving them some financial inclusion, including in the banking system.
“So those were five loans totaling $3.45 billion. And as you know, the tenure is all around 40 years, moratorium period of around 10 years, and interest very low, or in the cases of the loans, zero interest, although some fees would be incurred,” Edu said.
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