{"id":69948,"date":"2025-07-08T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69948"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T09:37:07","slug":"fg-reaffirms-commitment-to-end-child-labour-promote-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/08\/fg-reaffirms-commitment-to-end-child-labour-promote-education\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Reaffirms Commitment to End Child Labour, Promote Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has restated its commitment to ending child labour and ensuring access to education for every Nigerian child.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing in Abuja on July 8, 2025, officials expressed concern over the growing number of out-of-school children engaged in hazardous work, especially in rural and low-income areas.<\/p>\n<p>The government said it is collaborating with states to fully implement the Child Rights Act, aiming to remove children from unsafe labour and return them to classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Efforts will include public awareness campaigns, enforcement of child protection laws, and support for vulnerable families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo child should have to choose between education and survival,\u201d said the Minister of Labour and Employment, who emphasized that education is key to breaking the cycle of poverty.<\/p>\n<p>This renewed drive, the FG noted, is part of a broader effort to build a safer and more equitable future for Nigerian children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Federal Government has restated its commitment to ending child labour and ensuring access to education for every Nigerian child. At a press briefing in Abuja on July 8, 2025, officials expressed concern over the growing number of out-of-school children engaged in hazardous work, especially in rural and low-income areas. The government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69950,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69948\/revisions\/69950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}