Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project has completed 94 out of its 161 planned activities for the 2025 fiscal year in Sokoto State, with over ₦8.4 billion already expended, the State Project Coordinator, Dr. Mansur Buhari, has disclosed.
Dr. Buhari made this known during a media roundtable with selected journalists in Sokoto. He was represented at the engagement by the Assistant System Strengthening Manager, Malam Suleiman Musa.
According to him, the project has so far spent ₦8,456,963,000 in 2025, covering wide-ranging interventions aimed at improving learning conditions and empowering adolescent girls across the state.
Explaining the utilisation of the funds, Dr. Buhari said AGILE renovated 749 classrooms, constructed 214 solar-powered boreholes across 240 schools, and built 1,652 toilet units in schools spread across the 23 local government areas of Sokoto State.
He further stated that the project planted 4,480 trees in 224 schools, enrolled 16,528 adolescent girls out of a target of 17,000, supplied 11,221 desks to schools statewide, and trained 2,240 School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) members on their roles, school environment management, and social compliance. In addition, 97,446 teaching and learning materials were distributed to 240 secondary schools.
Dr. Buhari also revealed that 41,821 beneficiaries accessed the Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) component of AGILE during the year under review. He noted the imbalance in the state’s school structure, pointing out that Sokoto has over 2,000 primary schools but fewer than 600 secondary schools, “which explains why AGILE is trying to bridge the gap by establishing additional 58 smart Secondary schools,” he disclosed.
Providing a breakdown of project implementation, AGILE Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Component Officer, Muhammed Mainasara, said the programme is on a positive trajectory. He explained that the number of completed activities represents over half of the annual target.
> “The project implementation status for the year 2025 showed, 161 planned activities of which 78 representing 43 percent has been successfully completed. 16 which represents 10 percent is in progress, 1 activity representing 1 percent is delayed and 7 others representing 7 percent moved. Therefore the total implemented activities within the year 2025 stood at 94 which meant 53 percent,” Mainasara affirmed.
In her opening remarks, a Component Lead of the project, Hajiya Rabi Gwadabawa, described the media as critical partners in the success of AGILE.
> “The media are our greatest partners because they help us inform, sensitize and educate the populace on our mission. The help us clear misinformation regarding the AGILE Project thereby making it acceptable to the populace,” she said.
Speaking on the Gender-Based Violence (GBV) component, Hajiya Rabi noted that AGILE is making significant progress through life skills training delivered via the safe space approach.
> “These Life Skills include, communication skills, menstrual hygiene, climate change, sexual transmitted infections, reproductive health, common nutrition, decision making amongst others,” Rabi noted.
The media roundtable was part of AGILE’s efforts to strengthen transparency, accountability, and public awareness of its education and empowerment programmes in Sokoto State.
