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.

The Death of Students May Have Caused the Death of Education in a School

Will normalcy ever be an option in Nigeria, this is a question asked by many, and it was also a question I asked myself upon the discovery of this event which transpired in the eastern part of the country as the traditional practices of a community resulted in the death of two students of Federal Polytechnic Oko after being allegedly attacked by masquerades in their hostel outside the campus. The students in retaliation took siege of the community looting and destroying over millions of naira worth of valuables and properties.
The situation was even uncontainable by the police and other law enforcers who were drafted in as the students blocked all entrances into the town, setting bonfires on roads and chasing indigenes, traders, and non students who took refuge into the bushes.

Education vs. Employment in Nigeria

Most youths seek higher education for the purpose of securing both an impressive certificate and hopefully a satisfying white collar office job. But with the rate of unemployment in Nigeria it's almost impossible to secure a job even as a certified graduate.
This anomaly has left many educated youths jobless, despite the fact that most youths spend a lot of money in school fees just to become a better person in the society and in most cases provide his/her family a better standard of living, but due to unemployment, graduates seeks job opportunities in the oddest of places. Does this mean that Education is meaningless?.

The Failure in Education, Is It the Fault of Youths the Future Leaders or the Current Leaders.

Youths are the future leaders of a nation and the world they say, but what is to become of a society when the future leaders have a dismal performance in education.
Nigeria like any other developing country face lots of adversities in different sectors of the economy, Nevertheless, education is a necessity to the growth of the world, but the anomalies of Nigerian education suggests the downfall of the country.
Research showed that only 30 percent of over a million students who sat for the WAEC and NECO senior secondary school certificate exam within the last six years where able to obtain credits in five credits, this indicates that the other 70 percent of secondary school leavers could not be considered for higher education.