FCT schools use scholarships to keep girls in class

File photo: Students in a Nigerian classroom.
File photo: Students in a Nigerian classroom. Photo: Ngozi Stella Udechukwu / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Some secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are adopting scholarships, peace-building initiatives and youth empowerment programmes to tackle school dropouts, early…

Some secondary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) are adopting scholarships, peace-building initiatives and youth empowerment programmes to tackle school dropouts, early marriage and poverty among students with focus on girls. At Government Secondary School (GSS), Bako, 35 indigent and orphaned students are benefiting from internal scholarships, with female students accounting for more…

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