FG unveils accelerated Basic Education Programme.

The Federal Government has unveiled the Accelerated Basic Education (ABE) programme, targeting 80 million underserved young non-literate Nigerians and adults. 

The Minister of State for Education, Prof. Suwaiba Ahmad, who unveiled the new programme while speaking at a one-day National Stakeholders Engagement Meeting on Youth and Adult Literacy in Abuja on Wednesday, where she was represented by her Special Assistant (Technical), Dr Claris Ujam, emphasized that the programme aims to provide inclusive, adaptable, and high-impact literacy interventions, meeting learners wherever they are without compromising quality or relevance.

Citing the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), which revealed that nearly 80 million Nigerians, constituting 31% of the population, are non-literate, the Minister said that the ABE programme seeks to bridge this gap by providing flexible learning pathways and tailored curricula to suit diverse learning needs, as it is designed to be a movement, rejecting age, geography, and circumstance as barriers to learning.

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