NGF Pledges 15% Allocation To Education in 2025 Budget
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF, has pledged to allocate at least 15 percent of their annual budgets to the education sector, with a particular emphasis on girl-child education.
Chairman of the NGF and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, disclosed this in his closing remarks at a two-day international conference on Girl Child Education in Nigeria.
Governor AbdulRazaq, represented by the Director-General of the forum, Abdulateef Shittu, said, “Our commitment as a forum to education financing, especially girl child education funding, is unwavering across the states.
We declare our readiness to meet the international benchmark of at least 15% annual budgetary allocation to the education sector.”
The Governors’ Forum also announced a partnership with the Federal Ministry of Youth through the NYSC to establish a Girl Child Education Community Service Group.
It noted that the group will be integral to addressing the out-of-school children challenge, focusing on primary school enrollment, foundational literacy and numeracy, and teacher capacity training.