Nigeria faces a critical challenge with out-of-school children (OOSC), with 2023 estimates indicating that 8.9 million primary school-age children and 3.9 million junior secondary school-age children are not attending school.1 While the majority of OOSC are concentrated in the northeast and northwest, numbers are rising in other regions, including the south.2 Despite long-standing recognition of the issue, there is limited evidence on effective interventions to address it. In response, the Nigeria National Council on Education (NCE) approved the Accelerated Basic Education Programme (ABEP) in 2019 to support overage OOSC aged 10 to 18 who have been out of school for two or more years.
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