dary education opportunities among girls in targeted areas.
In northern Nigeria, it added, the lack of secondary schools was significantly greater with up to 10 primary schools for every secondary school. “If nothing is done, 1.3 million girls out of the 1.85 million who began primary school in 2017/2018 in the northern states will drop out before reaching the last year of junior secondary school.”The World Bank said AGILE project would use secondary school as a platform to empower girls through education, life skills, health education GBV awareness and prevention, negotiations skills, self-agency and digital literacy skills.
“Addressing the key structural impediments in a comprehensive way will create the enabling environment to help Nigeria ensure better outcomes for girls, which will translate into their ability to contribute to productivity and better economic outcomes for themselves and the country.” “This entails building more than 5,500 JSSs and 3,300 classrooms for SSSs, as well as improving 2,786 Junior Secondary and 1,914 Senior Secondary schools with safe, accessible, and inclusive infrastructure,” it stated.
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