A couple of weeks ago, Governor Zulum discovered that the majority of the students at a junior secondary school could not read. At least, those ones are in school, unlike those highlighted in this sbmintelligence report. Nigeria OutOfSchoolChildren
While a lot is being said about tertiary education in Nigeria, issues about basic education, especially primary school education, have not taken centre stage. For months, the major conversations around education in Nigeria have been about the Academic Staff Union of Universities; their demands, rights and responsibilities. However, there has hardly been any nationwide conversation…
It has been discovered that many Nigerian children lack quality basic education which is the foundation of individual and national development. This is reflected by the 2021 Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey carried out by the National Bureau of Statistics and published in August 2022 which was reported by anchart. According to the survey, it was seen that only 26.8% of children between ages 7 – 14 in Nigeria could read functionally in any language and only 25.
The United Nations Children Fund also stated that a total of 11,536 schools were closed since December 2020 due to abductions and security issues and added that these school closures have impacted the education of approximately 1.3 million children in the 2020/21 academic years. The picture is so grim when one considers a report by SBM Intelligence which stated that a total of 621 schools were closed down in the North in March 2021 alone.
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