Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State through his improved education plan has returned over 16,000 adolescent girls back to the classrooms in the state.
The Senior Special assistant to governor Abdullahi Sule on public Affairs, Mr. Peter Ahemba made this known at a bimonthly press briefing on Sunday in Lafia.
Ahemba said that Governor Abdullahi Sule in collaboration with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project, has concluded plans to build 30 new schools for junior and senior secondary schools across the 13 local governments in the state with gender sensitive facilities.
He noted that the AGILE project seeking to improve adolescent girls has received support and advocacy to all the first class traditional rulers in the state who pledged to galvanise support to increase enrollment of adolescent girls education.
“So far the AGILE project has successfully reentered over 16 thousand adolescent girls back to school while arrangement have been concluded to recruit over one thousand teacher.
The AGILE project is a Wold Bank assisted intervention designed to improve secondary education opportunities among girls’ in targeted states across the Federation.
Ahemba further disclosed that over 24,000 candidates who sat for National Examination Council, NECO last year had their registration paid by the state government in all the public schools.
“Governor Abdullahi Sule has paid the NECO fee for all sevior secondary school candidates sitting for the exams this year 2025 irrespective of whether they a citizens of the state or not but provided they are schooling in any of the public schools in the state.
Ahemba stated that the aim of the free NECO fee is to alleviate parents of the burden and encourage young people to further their education.
