On 9th December President Olusegun Obasanjo launched a new Girls' Education Project at an official opening ceremony during the meeting of the National Council for Education. The £26million project, entirely financed by DFID Nigeria, will be implemented by UNICEF and Nigeria partners over the next three years. The project's goal is to achieve significant progress in Nigeria towards MDG 3: to eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education preferably by 2005 and to all levels of education no later than 2015.