Lagos State Flags off – NCAOOSCE Advocacy Marketing campaign to Sort out Out-of-School Kids Disaster

LAGOS, NIGERIA – The Lagos State Advocacy Crew of the Nationwide Fee for Almajiri and Out-of-School Kids’s Training (NCAOOSCE) right this moment formally flagged on its state-wide advocacy marketing campaign geared toward revitalizing efforts to scale back the variety of out-of-school youngsters in Nigeria.

 The flag-on ceremony, themed “Revitalization of the Out-of-School Kids’s Initiative,” was held on the Palace of His Royal Majesty, Oba Saheed Ademola Elegushi, Kusenla III, the Elegushi of Ikate Kingdom, who served as Royal Host and Particular Visitor of Honour. In his deal with, the Chairman of the Lagos State Advocacy Crew emphasised that the marketing campaign is not only a authorities programme, however a nationwide motion to revive dignity, alternative, and inclusion for each Nigerian youngster at present excluded from formal training. The Fee counseled His Royal Majesty for his continued contributions to training in Lagos State, together with scholarship schemes, infrastructure help, menstrual hygiene initiatives, and the institution of the Centre for Lagos Research at Lagos State University. The marketing campaign aligns with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, and helps the six strategic training priorities of the Federal Ministry of Training beneath Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON. Lagos is one among eight pioneering states championing this renewed nationwide effort. The Lagos State marketing campaign will cowl all 245 wards throughout the state’s three senatorial districts, partaking conventional leaders, non secular establishments, market teams, youth associations, and civil society organizations. A complete of 1,225 native volunteers will probably be chosen to champion the Fee’s flagship Nationwide Undertake an Out-of-School Youngster (N-OOSC) program on the grassroots degree.

Key focus areas of the advocacy embody: Ending road begging and youngster exploitation; Making certain youngster id by means of start registration; Selling protected, inclusive, and dignified studying areas; Eradicating abuse disguised as self-discipline; Empowering communities to personal the academic way forward for their youngsters. “This marketing campaign shouldn’t be in opposition to faith or custom,” the Advocacy Crew reiterated. “It’s about integration, dignity, and giving each youngster a good likelihood.” The occasion concluded with a name to motion for all stakeholders—authorities, conventional establishments, religion leaders, educators, and the general public—to unite in guaranteeing that no youngster is left behind.