Of Nigeria’s 180 million people, the number of illiterate Nigerians is estimated at 54 million, revealed the Federal Government yesterday.
The Acting Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Hindatu Abdullahi, presented the figures at the flag-off of the 2015 International Literacy Day celebration, and called for concerted efforts to improve the negative trend.

Recently, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced that over 757 million adults worldwide still lacked basic literacy skills, with about two-third of them being women, mostly from Nigeria and other third-world countries.
Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, in her message to mark the 2015 International Literacy Day, lamented that the number of out-of-school children and adolescents was on the rise, standing at 124 million worldwide.

Nigeria, in 2000, joined other countries to commit to the six Education For All (EFA) goals and later the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which had 2015 as deadline for achieving their set targets.
“Regrettably, a global review of achievements and challenges of EFA since inception shows that some of the targets remain unattained, especially in many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, including Nigeria,” said Abdullahi.

According to her, the 2013/2014 Global Monitoring Report (GMR) showed that countries like Brazil, China, Indonesia have attained 90 per cent literacy rate, while Egypt and India had about 70†to 89 per cent. Nigeria, Bangladesh and Pakistan had literacy rate of less than 70 per cent.

She noted that past governments generally gave more attention and resources to formal education programmes than the non-formal sub-sector, which accounted for a larger number of illiterate adults and out-of-school youths.
Reacting to this, Ms Bokova called for more investment and effective policies to embed action for literacy within wider development policies. She also urged Nigeria authorities to prioritise education, as this would bring about sustainable development across the country.


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Too bad........

54 MILLION NIGER AREA



MINUS BIAFRA (THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARK OF SUB- SAHARA )

U mean 54million notherners are illitrate

That's abokis

Including the No one Citizen.

What a pity.

that's not a problem after all our president. ..........
the problem now is kworrupshion

Since all appointments have been going to the North, we should also give them this one

No wonder buhari won the election.

15 million plus illiterates out of the 54 million voted for him because they only heard that he has 150 cows and one million naira in his account.

The money don magically turn to 30 million over night.

Buhari an ally of obasanjo and all other corrupt creations, yet some people no wan gree say they have been scammed.

what do you expect when you have an illiterate presidiot

That's in the country of arewanistan
Even their president is an illiterate
Rumour has it dat they came frm cow

No smoke without fire

gboss4sure:
No wonder buhari won the election.

15 million plus illiterates out of the 54 million voted for him because they only heard that he has 150 cows and one million naira in his account.

The money don magically turn to 30 million over night.

Buhari an ally of obasanjo and all other corrupt creations, yet some people no wan gree say they have been scammed.

Yorubas have been scammed

is very difficult, all the notherner can ever defeat one local gov..in yorubaland

We are not scammed

The number of illiterates will be more than that if the educated illiterates(wailing wailers) are added among the list.

To me ooohhh, I don't see any difference between educated illiterates(wailing wailers) and the real illiterates that have never seen the four corners of a classroom. Some times the illiterates seem to even reason more than the educated illiterates(wailing wailers), they provide solutions to sticky situations and make very good use of their mandula-oblongata