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17m Enrolled for UBE Programme From Juliana Taiwo in Abuja Minister of Education, Professor Fabian Osuji has disclosed that 17 million children have enrolled in the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Programme meant to provide free education and that school-feeding programme would help keep them in school. Osuji said this when he received the team from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), led by Mr. Namanga Ngongi, WFP�s Special Advisor and former Deputy Executive Director, who are in the country to unveil plans to renew the programme having failed in the past to make the necessary impact. The Minister said Nigeria was a country with great diversity where the very poor, not so poor and those who discourages girl-child education etc hence programmes like school feeding programme will not only attract them but help retain them in school. He said the Ministry had in 2002 inaugurated a committee with the responsibility of working with WFP and the programme would help give impetus to the UBE programme. He said the government of Nigeria was very interested in this aspect because with the introduction of UBE, which makes education free, it is important to increase number and expand interests because it is not all about enrolment but also retaining them. Earlier, Ngongi had said the programme had failed in the past as a result of logistics in taking the food to the designated destinations and not lack of interests on the part of the ministries concerned. He said the visit was an exploration mission because Nigeria has serious challenge in the UBE programme which lacks 100 per cent enrolment as a result of hunger. He said the programme is an area that requires more in-depth researches to use home grown resources to support. Who Are We ? | About THISDAYOnLine.com | THISDAY People | Contact Us © Copyright 2000 Leaders & Company Limited

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