The Federal Government has adopted Kaduna State‘s household mapping model as the national framework for identifying out-of-school children across the country. Alausa described the initiative as a major step towards addressing Nigeria’s long-standing out-of-school children crisis. However, the household mapping exercise carried out by the state government revealed that the actual figure was fewer than 200,000. He also expressed satisfaction that Kaduna’s household mapping exercise had been adopted as the national model for identifying out-of-school children. Nigeria has one of the largest populations of out-of-school children in the world.