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These programs have achieved varying levels of success with the primary challenge being that funding is difficult to come by. Formal and informal literacy education in Nigeria received a significant boost under the colonial rule of Britain, but since independence in 1960, educational funding across the board has been lacking. [67]
The Law defines Basic education to include: "Early childhood care and development education, nine years of formal schooling (6 years of primary and 3 years of junior secondary education, adult literacy and non-formal education, skills acquisition programmes and the education of special groups such as nomads and migrants, girl-child and women ...
Females in Nigeria have a basic human right to be educated, and this right has been recognized since the year 1948 adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR) [1] According to a report in 2014, female education has an important impact on the development of a stable, prosperous and healthy nation state resulting in active, productive and empowered citizens. [2]
In 2016, Nigeria's Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) reported that it has the highest number of out-of-school children in the world, an estimated 10.5 million. [10] Hence, the implementation of the State Universal Basic Education Board's provision for free Universal Basic Education for every Nigerian child of school-going age.
Almajiranci (Hausa pronunciation ⓘ) refers to a system of Islamic education practiced in northern Nigeria, the male gender seeking Islam knowledge is called Almajiri, female gender is Almajira, and the plural is Almajirai [1] [clarification needed]. The system encourages parents to leave parental responsibilities to the attached Islamic school.
Nigeria is the world's sixth-most populous country. The birth rate is 35.2-births/1,000 population and the death rate is 9.6 deaths/1,000 population as of 2017, while the total fertility rate is 5.07 children born/woman. [229] Nigeria's population increased by 57 million from 1990 to 2008, a 60% growth rate in less than two decades. [230]
The state of education in this modern African society results in part from the after-effects of colonialism and neocolonialism suffered by these countries; political and geopolitical failures, due on the one hand, to instability at the head of states, caused by armed insurrections in many regions of Africa, but also to the lack of education ...
The Economic Revolution in British West Africa (1926). Martin, Susan M. Palm oil and protest: an economic history of the Ngwa region, south-eastern Nigeria, 1800-1980 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Robinson, Ronald, and Jack Gallagher. Africa and the Victorians (1961).