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The executive director for Centre for Economic and Leadership Development,CELD, Mrs Furo Giami, has said that an astounding 8.2 million children are not provided with adequate access to education in Africa’s most populous country.
She revealed this during the second national conference on education which was organized by CELD and with the theme ‘equity and access to education for the average Nigerian child’.
She revealed that her claims which was from a report stated that ‘among this overwhelming statistics of 8.2million children, are those who are enrolled but dropped out due to diverse circumstances and also a good number who were never enrolled and a large percentage of them who are in school, thus not part of this statistics but are silently excluded’.
She maintained that many children drop out of school in their first years of education due to unequal provision of education and abject poverty and therefore called on politicians as a matter of urgency to provide the resources to get millions of children into school.
