Education
Source: StarAfrica
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Wednesday promised to train 60, 000 Nigerian women and girls on Information Communication Technology (ICT) to reduce illiteracy in the country.
The training Project Coordinator, Dr Safiya Muhammad, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday on the sidelines of the beginning of the three-day ICT training workshop.
She said the training was a pilot project organised by UNESCO in partnership with Procter and Gamble, a private business organisation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Agency for Mass Education to tackle illiteracy.
"Nigeria is one of the biggest, if not the biggest country in Africa and our illiteracy rate is very high and among the illiterate, there are more women and girls.
"So, Procter and Gamble saw it fit to intervene in the challenges of countries, especially in Nigeria to reduce the illiteracy rate among girls and women because girls and women are those that are more illiterate in Nigeria" she explained.
Among the states of Nigeria, two states were taken as pilot states, the FCT and Rivers states.
It is envisaged that at the end of the target period of three years, some 60, 000 girls and women would benefit from the literacy drive, which will drastically reduce the number of illiterates among them.