As this report was being drafted, Zamfara State officially announced that it has over one million children out of school. The pronouncement was made by the Director, Junior Secondary Schools of the Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, Alhaji Sani Mailafiya, Zamfara State. With that record, Zamfara leads other states as having the highest number of such children. In numerous other states of Nigeria’s 36, the statistics are not less frightening. In fact, a survey report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) released in the Q2 2013, ranked Nigeria top of 12 countries where a large population of school children are not in the classrooms. According to the UNESCO Education for All Global Monitoring Report (EAGMR) report, one out of every five Nigerian children is out of school. In all, approximately 10.5 million young Nigerians have never seen the classrooms.



The statistics get more frightening with the poor or complete absence of basic computer access or knowledge to these young Nigerians that would form the generation of its leaders in the not so distant future. An agreeable estimate among many experts is that well over 80% of young Nigerians of between the age of 6 and 16 have no access and have never touched a computer. For this huge population of young people, a digital divide stares at them that would effectively cut them off from any semblance of relevance in the already evolved Knowledge or Digital Age.



When experts use the term Digital Divide
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God4bid

Every day, more and more northern men and women voluntarily make their way to Boko Haram camps.

They've seen that the only society that can make their lives better is the model which Boko Haram is pushing whereby widespread ignorance is encouraged.

These days it's not just enough to have a formal education but you must aspire to the highest levels with additional post graduate degrees. Other than that, one must acquire and develop other vital skills on their own that will be relevant in a work environment before one can be successful at their place of work.

How do you expect Adamu who can barely speak English and his only formal training is to "depict" and not write Islamic text to survive in today's world?

Adamu also lacks any marketable skill and the only way he can survive is to push a cart.

The north is sitting on a keg of Gun powder.

The first installment in their investment in widespread ignorance is paying off with Boko Haram.

In the next 20 yrs the situation will be far worse.