Nigeria currently has the highest number of kids in the world without education, the uneviable record stands at 10 million kids.
This unsavory news was disclosed in a statement by United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
According to UNICEF, almost one of three primary-school aged children and one in four secondary-school aged children are not enrolled.
“In many states, girls are twice as likely to be out of school as boys. In some parts of Nigeria, only five per cent of the poorest young women are literate. Given these challenges, it is disturbing that the girls were abducted to prevent them from attending school, UNICEF said in a recent statement condemning the abduction.
The escalation of acts of terror in North-Eastern Nigeria which has been battling with insurgency has has also ensured that at least 15,000 children stopped attending classes in the last three months.
UNICEF, in its statement, said recent kidnappings and violent attacks had made it difficult for children in northern Nigeria to get education, as thousands of families are fleeing their homes and pulling their children out of school.
In the last three months alone, the United Nation’s organisation reported that at least 15,000 children in northern Nigeria had stopped attending classes.
“It’s heart-stopping data,” UNICEF’s chief of child protection, Susan Bissell said.