2023: Is Education on the Agenda?

But what is the state of education in Nigeria today? To put it mildly, Nigeria’s education system is in shambles.  In 2015, when the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) ranked countries on Education for All (EFA) Development Index, taking into account universal primary education, adult literacy, quality of education and gender parity, Nigeria ranked 103 out of 118. Shortly after, a survey conducted by UNICEF and the Nigerian government shows that Nigeria has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world at 13.2 million. This year – and no thanks to the pandemic and insecurity in most parts of the country, UNESCO announced that Nigeria now has 20 million out-of-school children.