Despite trillions of Naira being spent by government on education at all levels, the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria have been on the increase, Bukola Ladoja, wife of a former governor of Oyo State, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, has lamented.
While expressing concern over the increasing number of out-of-school children in Nigeria, she said the number kept increasing because many children did not comprehend what they had been taught in schools.
The latest statistics of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, released in September, 2022 put the current number of out-of-school children in Nigeria at 20 million. According to her, the menace of out-of-school children would become a thing of past if students comprehend what they were being taught in school.