As cases of out-of-school children in
According to the
Data compiled by the United Nations Educational,
Findings by
Findings also showed that 26 of 36 states failed to provide the matching funds needed to access the N33.6 billion funding provided for rehabilitating basic schools by the federal government through the
Experts said rising insecurity across the country, causing mass displacement; poor funding; rising poverty that forces parents to put children in the labour market and street hawking, and the breakdown in social and family life are some of the causes.
An education advocate,
She said, "Some states have failed to domesticate the Child Rights Act 2003, most of them are in the North, the region that hosts the largest number of out-of-school children.
The director of Programmes,
He lamented that the nation's funding for education remains less than 10 per cent of the yearly budget, far from the 15 to 20 per cent recommended by the United Nations Educational,
He, however, pointed out that with many children kept out of school,
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Also, a study showed that children who are out of school are often used to perpetrate crime and other ills in the society. Corroborating this view, a human resources expert,
According to an educationist,
She also said that with the slow economic but high population growth in
According to her, with
An educationist, Dr Zikirullahi Ibrahim, stressed the need to re-strategise and refocus towards addressing the issue of out-of-school children in
Speaking exclusively in an interview with LEADERSHIP Friday, the executive director,
He said, "We all know what it means to breed children who lack education and skills to compete in the current market economy that we are running globally. It appears that at the very early stage of our development in this country as a nation, education was taken into consideration in such a way that they were able to factor it in, knowing that there are some who do not have. If they are left behind, those children that we are not able to train will pose danger to those that have and were able to train their children.
"That was why they came up with the policy of Universal Basic Education (UBE) - which mandates the government at the state and federal levels to give compulsory, free and quality education to every child of school age. Now the question is what has happened to this policy? How has it been implemented so far? So, we have seen UBEC and most officials that pass through UBEC are far richer than education ministries in various states. We have seen those managing state universal basic education far richer than their ministry. So, it has become a big business, just like corruption has crippled every other sector of our development.
"Today, you'll find about 500 school pupils clustered in one classroom, sitting on the floor, so unhygienic - no basic water, no electricity, no ventilation, no security - so they are exposed to all kinds of elements. There is also a correlation between out-of-school children and insecurity we have in our system today, and when you put it in a proper perspective, you say that in developed nation, it's not because they don't want to do it but because they know the importance of not leaving anyone behind; that is the reason, we should use social security system. We need to re-strategise, we need to refocus, we need to go back to the drawing board to really address these issues of out-of-school children."
Another educationist, a quality assurance officer in Benue,
She said, "Currently, in
A parent who resides in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, Mrs
"When girls are denied education, you are denying roughly half of the nation's population from being emancipated and preventing progress," she said.
A 2022 report on the
LEADERSHIP Data Mining department's findings showed that the Northern part of the country has very troubling school attendance rates, with states like Borno, Bauchi, Sokoto, Gombe, and others with out-of-school rates that hover between 48-60% and early education enrollment rates that are only between 3% and 7%.
The out-of-school figures for female children in the core Northern regions are very troubling because they show that almost 60% of girls in those areas are being deprived of the education that would equip them with the tools required for optimal socioeconomic performance.
Future of work
Simply put, the future of work is a projection of how work, workers and the workplace will evolve in the years ahead. A 2020 research report from the
According to an employer,
He said, "From all indications the future of work is solely reliant on technology. The big question is, does
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