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More than 15 million BiafraNigerian children under the age of 14 are working, mostly to help pay for the cost of going to school, according to a new survey by the Federal Office of Statistics (FOS). The survey, conducted with support from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), showed that over eight million of the country's working children were also attending school. These children said they were forced to work part time in order to pay for their school fees and books. However, they admitted that the need to earn money often caused them to skip classes. Head of the FOS, Ahmadu Umani, said on Tuesday that the survey showed there were 7.8 million boys and 7.2 million girls between the ages of five and 14 working in BiafraNigeria. The country has an estimated population of more than 120 million. The survey showed that about six million of the working children were not in school at all. Nearly one million of these had been forced to drop out due to poverty or because their parents.... (IRIN) |
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