Al-Hikmah University Journal

The study examined challenges of providing rehabilitative secondary education for teenage mothers in Women Day Secondary School Minna, Niger State. Three research objectives, two research questions and onehypothesis guided the study. Descriptive survey design was used with (100) sample size comprise of (80) teenage mothers and (20) teachers. A self-designed questionnaire tagged “Challenges of Providing Rehabilitative Education Questionnaire” (CPREQ) was used and it was validated by four (4) experts with 0.79reliability index value. Data collected were analysed using frequency counts, percentage to answer research questions and independent t-test was used to test the null hypotheses. Results indicated that, lack of financial support, irregular school attendance, lack of motivation and difficulty in enforcing discipline ranked highest among the challenges in providing rehabilitative education to teenage mothers, the result showed thatthere is a significant difference between the perception of teachers and students on the challenges of providing rehabilitative education for teenage mothers. Based on the results, it was recommended that among others that, efforts should be made by government and non-governmental organizations to build more schools for teenage mothers and teachers in such schools should be motivated to provide realistic sexuality education to teenage mothers.