Illiteracy among Nigerian Adults

I’ve been fixating mainly on the challenges faced by the youths in education that I haven’t considered the adults, so after a little stake out research I was able to gather some of the education related challenges facing adults. The Adults are no doubt the leaders of today but there seems to be one general challenge when it comes to adults and that is illiteracy.

    Illiteracy, simply defined as a situation where a person can’t read or write, well this is one of the factors greatly posing an adverse effect on the development of a country’s educational standards. According to 2009 data from UNESCO, statistics showed that over 34.8 million adults in Nigeria are illiterates thereby ranking the highest in sub-Saharan Africa.

    Though this issue is treated with levity, it actually poses a major set-back to the educational development, after all we youths dwell on our elders for their wisdom an advice but what help can they be when they have so limited or no knowledge on

Provision of Basic Infrastructure towards Education Is the Key to Development of Nigeria

A School Abandoned by The Government, How Can They Learn!

The availability of infrastructure is one of the great aids to the growth in educational standards of a country, but the statistics has shown that 4 out of 5 schools are without the needed equipments to promote the quality of education in schools. The Federal Government claims to allocate a lot of fund towards the provision of infrastructures to schools yearly yet there hasn’t been any visible action taken to equip these schools especially the public which are mostly just empty buildings with no roofs or chairs, most of the students just play all day because since there aren't any thing to teach with who will bother to wasting time fighting a lost cause.

Education Is the Target of Terrorism in Nigeria

If you’ve being listening to the news lately, you may have heard about the never ending plight of Nigerians in the hands of the Islamic extremist sect known as Boko Haram.

     As part of their beliefs it seems as though they consider formal education as an abomination brought upon us by foreigners and therefore should be purged from existence, and they’ve gone to extreme measures to jeopardize any development towards Education.

    In the northern parts of Nigeria Schools are being set ablaze almost every day with over 15 public and private schools already burnt to the ground thereby forcing over 10,000 children out of schools and into the streets. Although there hasn’t being any major fatalities, dreams as well as the future of these pupils are being killed with every arson. Though this group was seen as anti-western education since their armed insurgences in 2009 the group never attacked schools until recently, with each of their unabated attacks being even greater than the latter.