The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says Nigeria has the second largest number of child brides in the world, with 23 million girls and women married out as children in the country, thereby ending their educational strive.

Mr Bhanu Pathak, Chief of Field Office (CFO) UNICEF Nigeria, Bauchi Field Office, stated this in Bauchi on Saturday at a Youth Talk ceremony organised in commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

“Too many Nigerian children and young people are being left behind, especially when it comes to education.

“Nigeria has the world’s highest number of out-of-school children; more than 10.5 million Nigerian children are not in school.

“Nigeria also has the second largest number of child brides in the world with 23 million girls and women married as children, and as such, ending their education,” said Pathak.

He reiterated UNICEF’s resolve to foster a stronger partnership with the Nigerian government at the federal and state levels for the realisation of children’s rights.

In his remarks, Mr Sagir Musa, the President, Youth Advocates For Education, Bauchi, said, the challenges of young people included high rate of unemployment, lack of basic life skills, drug abuse, political thuggery and illiteracy among others.

He commended the state government for collaborating with UNICEF, Bauchi Field Office, to organise such forum which gave young people the opportunity to have their voices heard and take decisions on matters that affected their lives.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the ceremony was organized by UNICEF and Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB).

The Youth Talk, which is tagged ‘The Nigeria We Want: Voices from Bauchi’, was sponsored by United Kingdom Department For International Development (DFID), with participants from six states of Adamawa, Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa, Plateau and Taraba States.

Source>>>http://www.ogbeta.ng/2019/11/nigeria-is-worlds-number-2-in-child.html

Na wa.

North has finished Nigeria

Is it terrorism, Nepotism so many of them and now this. They are just getting the Zoo in the world map for wrong reasons.

Nigeria ...Nigeria always making name for the wrong reasons and breaking negetive records

Naawaoo

Why always Nigeria.

These Hausa/Fulani people has given us a bad name.

These Northerners and negative indices are like 5&6. Please unicef be kind to include 'northern' to 'Nigeria' next time, maybe that way their good for nothing leaders are gonna understand.

Y aren't we number 1?

Northern Nigeria

Can't we be number 1 in anything.

UNICEF is deliberately painting Nigeria bad...

Always in front for the wrong reasons. Tufiakwa!

Hmn...



The guilty ones knows themselves...


Blame it on Osu-alusi flat head pigs...

Our brothers up north doing a great job

Na wah

Thanks to the North

Bigflamie:
North has finished Nigeria

Is it terrorism, Nepotism so many of them and now this. They are just getting the Zoo in the world map for wrong reasons.

Regina Daniel's, see what you have caused.

ecclize:
UNICEF is deliberately painting Nigeria bad...

Visit the north

please Northern Nigeria. Bauchi first Lady just revealed how his family had 100 girls and married them off at tender age without formal education


UNICEF should move their headquarter in west Africa to North for proper orientation, let them help us save the girl child from this Islamic fanatics people

MacBan:
The North and negative indices are like 5&6.

Damnnnnn

As a real niggarrr

I must tell you this is a problem of Nigeria not the north

North and South are one

If you say the north
Then i can tell you there is no 15 year old female in the south that is still a virgin

Courtesy of the North that has majority of that numbers.

Is there no international development index we can pride ourselves as been positively rated...which kind wahala be diswan bikonu

Thanks to our Northern Brothers

North