EducationAndWomen

                            EDUCATION AS A SOLUTION MULTIPLIER      The late Nelson Mandela once said ‘’ Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world’’. Let look at education in this way, it is a life transformation, open future and above all a collective construction of a society. UNICEF surveys showed that the population of out of school children in Nigeria had risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million and the highest in the world. Out of the 17 states in the country with the highest number of out of school children, 14 are in north.        According to Save the children in its report, more than 1000 children have been abducted in the country since January 2021 and August. Experts have further predicted that with the current level of insecurity in the country, the number of out of school children is set to increase. Furthermore, in the north east and north west the female primary net attendance rate are low at 47.7 and 47.3 percent showing that over h

      TACKLING OUT OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN NIGERIA                                   By Adeleke Adebola                                                       photo credit: Dubawa     Looking at education in this way, this is life, transformation, an open future and above all, a collective construction of a society that aspires to become an expression of the best intentions of human beings. If we are talking of poverty, insecurity, out of school children and so on, where we should begin, it is education. Education should be one of the priorities of children and right of every children, UNICEF Survey showed that the population of out of school children in Nigeria had risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million. In Nigeria, we have 36 states out of the 36 states, 17 states in the country with the highest number of out of school children and 14 are in the north. Gender, geography and others factors like poverty are contributing factor to the role of out of school children in Nigeria. In Ni