J12: I thought this woman was intelligent.

Freiburger: 18 million Nigerians are mentally ill, another 56 million are illiterate, what's left?

collynzo2: Looks like today is statistics day, just pull out figures from your anus and declare it as fact

Afrocatalyst: I personally will nt believe her statistics. A lot of Nigerians misunderstand the word 'education', thus anyone who does nt fit into their definition of 'education' is an illiterate. For God's sake there are two types of education,formal and informal and anyone who has any of them is never an illiterate. What is the doctor who drives to work without a vulcanizer to pump his tyres wen flat? No form of education is useless,infact,for a nation such as our dear Naija,formal education has proven to be a neccessary evil we must live wit. If nt,how do u explain a graduate studying a course he's nt passionate about just because he needs the papers? No wonder most end up stealing frm the companies they work for. There's a thread on our dear nairaland dat speaks more on this. I dnt have the link bt u can google 'how the lives of Nigerian youths are being wasted through education by patrickkkk nairaland'.

I think madam Ezekwesili should knw wen to speak facts and wen to do politics. Imho.

onitshaigbo: Why should we measure literacy by English? Is English our national language? Almost every Nigerian can speak, read, and write Pidgin well, and that's good enough for me.

malele: wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww i made front page atlast oooooooooooooooooooooooo

TheBookWorm: She may have a point. Just take a minute to read some of the comments from many of the posters on Nairaland. You would think they are illiterate as well.

Billyonaire: This woman is becoming the Female Hell-Rufai. She has now turned her insults on Nigerians.

eGuerrilla:

An illiterate is an illiterate is an illiterate, get it?
Whether you are educated in the formal sector or the informal sector - as you put it - if you cannot read and write in a language, then you are not literate in it.

My educated comrade, please be advised that it is indeed possible for someone to speak a language with fluency and yet be considered a functional illiterate all the same.

sheyie2007: it's truly 18million

ZACHIE: Another rubbish statement
Just that i cannot read and write English, then i am illiterate?
Not really.
130 million Nigerians use mobile phones, right?
Assuming of the mobile phones user, 10% are duplicated, 10% are unable to operate them what balance of illertae you will have will still exceed 100million.
To operate a mobile phone, you still require some form of literacy