The Federal Government is collaborating with the UN Special Envoy on Global Education to ensure security in all schools in the country.
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The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Dr MacJohn Nwaobiala, disclosed this in an address he delivered at the annual Speech and Prize -Giving Day ceremony of King's College Lagos.
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Nwaobiala said the collaboration was aimed at providing a pragmatic response to the protection of schools and to prevent future attacks in schools across the country.
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According to him, the initiative is equally in a bid to ensure uninterrupted education for the Nigerian-child.
.The permanent secretary also called on school authorities to intensify sensitization programmes to ensure that unhygienic practices that created high risk conditions for the spread of ebola disease are adequately addressed.