Challenges Of Educating Nigeria’s Out Of School Children

[Shola Sholaz]

TO get Nigeria's 10 million out-of-school children into school and learning, today, alongside development partners, we will announce millions of dollars of international support in a joint effort with President Goodluck Jonathan and his state governors.
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When the president convenes the inaugural education summit – bringing his cabinet ministers, state governors and state education commissioners together with global partners – the international community will make an unprecedented commitment, which will bolster the $250 million of Nigerian government support with upwards of $250 million of global finance. This will be the first of a series of practical steps towards the delivery of education.
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These arrangements – to support school building, recruitment and training of new teachers, and the implementation of new innovative teaching via tablets, phones and online school courses – are part of a global initiative to get every boy and girl to school by the end of 2015 with quality learning opportunities.
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Our aim is to build a world where for the first time no boy or girl is denied the right to education. In this, the challenges faced by Nigeria are real and many – with 10.5 million primary school-age children not in education, Nigeria is home to the world's largest out- of-school population.