LAGOS, NIGERIA – The Lagos State Advocacy Staff of the Nationwide Fee for Almajiri and Out-of-School Kids’s Training (NCAOOSCE) right now formally flagged on its state-wide advocacy marketing campaign geared toward revitalizing efforts to scale back the variety of out-of-school youngsters in Nigeria.
The flag-on ceremony, themed “Revitalization of the Out-of-School Kids’s Initiative,” was held on the Palace of His Royal Majesty, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, Kusenla III, the Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom, who served as Royal Host and Particular Visitor of Honour. In his tackle, the Chairman of the Lagos State Advocacy Staff emphasised that the marketing campaign is not only a authorities programme, however a nationwide motion to revive dignity, alternative, and inclusion for each Nigerian little one at present excluded from formal schooling. The Fee recommended His Royal Majesty for his continued contributions to schooling in Lagos State, together with scholarship schemes, infrastructure assist, menstrual hygiene initiatives, and the institution of the Centre for Lagos Research at Lagos State University. The marketing campaign aligns with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and helps the six strategic schooling priorities of the Federal Ministry of Training underneath Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON. Lagos is certainly one of eight pioneering states championing this renewed nationwide effort. The Lagos State marketing campaign will cowl all 245 wards throughout the state’s three senatorial districts, partaking conventional leaders, spiritual establishments, market {groups}, youth associations, and civil society organizations. A complete of 1,225 native volunteers might be chosen to champion the Fee’s flagship Nationwide Undertake an Out-of-School Baby (N-OOSC) program on the grassroots stage.
Key focus areas of the advocacy embrace: Ending avenue begging and little one exploitation; Making certain little one id by start registration; Selling protected, inclusive, and dignified studying areas; Eradicating abuse disguised as self-discipline; Empowering communities to personal the academic way forward for their youngsters. “This marketing campaign is just not towards faith or custom,” the Advocacy Staff reiterated. “It’s about integration, dignity, and giving each little one a good probability.” The occasion concluded with a name to motion for all stakeholders—authorities, conventional establishments, religion leaders, educators, and the general public—to unite in guaranteeing that no little one is left behind.
