Don canvasses ‘second-chance’ for Nigeria’s teeming drop-outs

Doing so, the don said, will reduce inequality, discrimination and injustice in the society. Egunyomi stated this at her inaugural lecture entitled: “Balancing Life Equation with Continuing Education.” She lamented that the Global Monitoring Report on Education-For-All (EFA) 2012 has ranked Nigeria and Egypt as having the largest number of illiterates in Africa. She decried the 26 per […]

Doing so, the don said, will reduce inequality, discrimination and injustice in the society.
 Egunyomi stated this at her inaugural lecture entitled: “Balancing Life Equation with Continuing Education.”
 She lamented that the Global Monitoring Report on Education-For-All (EFA) 2012 has ranked Nigeria and Egypt as having the largest number of illiterates in Africa.
 She decried the 26 per cent Nigeria’s average out-of-school primary-age children, with the northern states accounting for 43 per cent and southern states 8.75 per.  To ameliorate the ugly trend, Egunyomi enjoined the three tiers of government in the country to intensify efforts on education, especially in the North.
 She said: “Based on the foregoing data, continuing education will remain the most powerful educational strategy for reducing the high illiteracy rate in Nigeria by giving access to educational opportunities to those who did not attend school at all, those who missed initial schooling and those who left school early.”
 She highlighted the need for higher institutions to access funds set aside for the development of academic and non -academic staff.