Out-Of-School Crisis: Varsity Don Wants Financial Incentives For Vulnerable Families

A renowned professor of Law, Bagoni Bukar, has called on governments in Northern Nigeria to introduce sustained financial incentives for vulnerable families.
He said this will encourage parents to enrol their children in school and prevent them from dropping out.
Bukar stated this during an interview with LEADERSHIP.
He said poverty remained a major factor driving children away from classrooms into street trading, begging and menial labour, warning that many families were increasingly finding it difficult to prioritise education over their immediate survival needs.
He said addressing the out-of-school children crisis in Nigeria, particularly in the North, required more than policy...