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Years after dropping out, women in northern Nigeria return to the classroom

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · · 1313 words · By Abdulaziz Bagwai
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Years after dropping out, women in northern Nigeria return to the classroom Women in northern Nigeria return to school after years out but must balance childcare, duties, and costs.

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What happened

Years after dropping out, women in northern Nigeria return to the classroom Women in northern Nigeria return to school after years out but must balance childcare, duties, and costs.

Why it matters

Sokoto, Nigeria – Each time her curious seven-year-old child returned home from school with homework, 28-year-old Habiba Abubakar knew it was time to take him to her neighbour, whom the child called “aunt”, even though they were not related by blood, who had…

Common ground

But that changed in 2021, when Abubakar enrolled herself in the Women Centre for Continuing Education (WCCE) in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria.

Perspective signals

No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/4/nigerias-second-chance-schools-women…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 9 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “the centre designed a three-year curriculum for its primary section, from adult one to three.”
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The claim is explicitly stated in the Al Jazeera article, but no other independent source provides the specific curriculum details for WCCE's primary section.
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web search NEUTRAL — Unlike other public schools, where pupils spend six years, the centre designed a three-year curriculum for its primary section, from adult one to three. In the secondary sections, students spend three…
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/4/nigerias-second-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Latest Book Released in the WCCES-Brill Series.WCCES is a tax-exempt non-profit association under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the Code of Laws of the United States of America.
https://www.worldcces.org/
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web search NEUTRAL — Смотрите онлайн «1 серия (Озвучка Animaut) - Жемчужина класса Е / The Jewel of Section E / Ang Mutya ng Section E» от автора Oppamovie | Дорамы без рекламы. Хорошее качество видео без регистрации в бе…
https://vk.com/video-45255846_456240066
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Claim 2: “In the secondary sections, students spend three years each in the junior and senior levels.”
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The claim is explicitly stated in the Al Jazeera article, but no other independent source corroborates the specific structure of WCCE's secondary section.
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... ... (WCCE) in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria. ... In the secondary sections, students spend three years each in the junior and senior levels.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/4/nigerias-second-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 21, 2026 ... ... includes 12 years serving in the Springdale School ... School and three years as a teacher and coach at Gravette Junior High School.
https://www.facebook.com/rogersschools/posts/the-rogers-boar…
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 2, 2026 ... The Japanese school system includes six years of primary school, three years of middle school, and three years of high school. The nine ...
https://inria.hal.science/hal-05533317/document
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Claim 3: “UNICEF reported that more than half of the girls in the region are not attending school.”
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Multiple independent sources (UNICEF Nigeria and a LinkedIn report citing UNICEF) confirm that more than 50% of girls in northern Nigeria are not attending school.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Child sexual abuse in Nigeria is a criminal offence under several sections of chapter 21 of the country's Criminal Code. The legal age of consent is 18. A 2015 report by the United Nations Children's …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_Nigeria
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Education in Nigeria is overseen by the Federal Ministry of Education. Responsibility for education is shared among the federal, state, and local governments. The education system is divided into kind…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Nigeria
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of 923,769 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria
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Claim 4: “the vocational section of the centre, which was designed to equip students with practical skills such as tailoring and soap-making, now offers only tailoring.”
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The Al Jazeera article specifically states that the vocational section, once designed for tailoring and soap-making, now only offers tailoring. No other source corroborates this specific change in curriculum.
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web search NEUTRAL — On the other hand, the vocational section of the centre, which was designed to equip students with practical skills such as tailoring and soap-making, now offers only tailoring.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/4/nigerias-second-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Browse 1.8M+ agent skills compatible with Claude Code, Codex CLI and ChatGPT. The open standard SKILL.md format for AI coding assistants.
https://skillsmp.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Sometimes, you need to break the rules to innovate — but which ones? Entrepreneurship professor John Mullins shares six counter-conventional mindsets for ent...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHJnEHyyN1Y
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Claim 5: “In their final years, they also sit for the mandatory Junior Leaving School Certificate of Education (JLSCE) and Senior School Certificate of Education (SSCE) examinations.”
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The Al Jazeera article confirms that students sit for the JLSCE and SSCE. While other search results discuss NECO/SSCE generally, they do not specifically link these exams to WCCE students.
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web search NEUTRAL — Students in the affected locations were unable to sit for the papers already scheduled in the examination time table. The Governing Board further resolved, that when normalcy returns, the Council will…
https://www.mediangr.com.ng/education/neco-timetable/7149/
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web search NEUTRAL — In the secondary sections, students spend three years each in the junior and senior levels. In their final years, they also sit for the mandatory Junior Leaving School Certificate of Education (JLSCE)…
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/4/nigerias-second-…
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web search NEUTRAL — National Examinations Council (NECO) Timetable 2026: Full SSCE Exam Dates, Times, Rules and PDF Guide.Schools and parents may also use the timetable for revision planning, movement to school/exam cent…
https://myschoolgist.com/news/neco-timetable/
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Claim 6: “the centre also offers free education, benefitting from the state government’s effort to reduce the number of out-of-school children.”
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The Al Jazeera article mentions the center provides adult education and vocational skills. While other sources confirm the Sokoto state government provides social welfare and scholarships, they do not specifically confirm that WCCE is free due to these specific efforts.
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web search NEUTRAL — How the system works. WCCE, commissioned by the then-military governor of Sokoto State, Navy Captain Abdul Rasheed Adisa Raji, was founded in 1997 to provide adult education and vocational skills to w…
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/6/4/nigerias-second-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Sokoto state currently runs one of the most down-to-earth social welfare programmes, with the state government raising monthly cash transfers to persons living with disabilities to N10,000 per benefic…
https://thesun.ng/sokoto-state-2-years-of-transformative-gov…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Sokoto State Scholarship 2026 is a fully funded program offered by the Sokoto State Government for indigenes to pursue Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees abroad in countries like China, India, and Pa…
https://scholarshipunion.com/sokoto-state-scholarship-2026-i…
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Claim 7: “WCCE, commissioned by the then-military governor of Sokoto State, Navy Captain Abdul Rasheed Adisa Raji, was founded in 1997”
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The Al Jazeera article and a PDF on stakeholders' perceptions both confirm WCCE was founded in 1997 in Sokoto State. The Military Wiki confirms Navy Captain Rasheed Adisa Raji was the Military Administrator of Sokoto State during that period (1996-1998).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Adult education is when adults gain new attitudes, knowledge, skills, or values through systematic educating activities. It includes any form of learning adults engage in beyond traditional schooling,…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_education
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education (commonly known as the Chang School of Continuing Education or simply the Chang School) is the school responsible for continuing education within To…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang_School_of_Continuing_Edu…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The University of Cambridge Professional and Continuing Education (PACE), formerly the Institute of Continuing Education (ICE) is a department of the University of Cambridge that provides continuing e…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge_Profes…
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Claim 8: “Habiba Abubakar enrolled herself in the Women Centre for Continuing Education (WCCE) in Sokoto State, northwest Nigeria in 2021.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general definitions of the name 'Habiba' and unrelated Wikipedia entries. There is no evidence in the provided search results confirming that a specific person named Habiba Abubakar enrolled in WCCE in 2021, although the Al Jazeera article mentioned in other claims likely contains this narrative.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019 IAAF World Athletics Championships (Arabic: بطولة العالم لألعاب القوى 2019) was the seventeenth edition of the biennial, global athletics competition organised by the International Associatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_World_Athletics_Champions…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Ilm al-kalam or ilm al-lahut, often shortened to kalam, is the scholastic, speculative, or rational study of Islamic theology (aqida). It can also be defined as the science that studies the fundamenta…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalam
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 26 July 2023, a coup d'état occurred in Niger, during which the country's presidential guard removed and detained president Mohamed Bazoum. Subsequently, General Abdourahamane Tchiani, the Commande…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerien_crisis_(2023–2024)
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Claim 9: “one recently won this year’s Usmanu Danfodio Week, an annual quiz competition organised for secondary school students in the state.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny that a WCCE student won the Usmanu Danfodio Week quiz competition.
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.