Out-Of-School Girls as an Impediment to the Achievement of the UBE Goals in Plateau State

Abstract

This paper investigated out-of-school girls as an impediment to the achievement of the UBE goals in Plateau State. The sample consisted of one hundred (100) respondents were used in the study. Three research questions were formulated and answered in the study to facilitate the findings of the research. Descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study and the research instrument used for this study was a questionnaire developed by the researcher. The data collected in the study was analyzed using mean score and simple percentages. From the analysis of data collected, it was discovered that there are many of out-of-school girl-children in Jos North LGA and therefore, the extent of achievement of the UBE goals is still low despite effort by stakeholders to curb the rate of out-of-school girl-children. Therefore, it is concluded in this study that there is need to put more effort towards curbing the rate of out of out-of-school girl-children in Jos North LGA of Plateau State. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that early girl-child marriage should be discouraged in Nigeria and the UBE programme should be made compulsory for very Nigerian child of school age.