Human rights advocate, Dr. Otive Igbuzor says about 10 million Nigerian children within school age are out of school. This trend he said, must be addressed for Nigeria to attain its full potential in terms of development.
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This is as he also canvassed for increase in the funding of public schools to enable Nigeria curb the increasing challenges of poverty and illiteracy in the country.
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Dr. Igbuzor stated this in Abuja at the 6th anniversary and award of scholarships to some less privileged children by Emoeferotu Foundation.
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He said that the successive governments in the country had not done much to give education the priority it deserves, as a key factor in measuring real development.
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Igbuzor, who blamed the increasing rate of poverty in the country on lack of access to quality education and bad leadership, emphasised the need for increase in girl-child education, which he said is key to curbing child and maternal mortality in the country.