Have you ever seen a child hawking on the streets will others are at school? Were you surprised? Don't be,Some shocking statistic out recently says with 10 million kids out of school, nigeria is the number one country in the world for uneducated children. According to the statistics, the state with the highest number of uneducated kids is kano. How can this be? How can this country grow economically when the next generation are not given the skills they need to dominate. How can the nigerian government be spending billions on national airline, world trade center, eko atlantic and many other secondary frevolities, when education, the most primary need in a society is absent. This is very disturbing and no one is paying attention to it. The most populous black nation of earth is sending forth a generation of illetraits into an increasing competitive world..the U.N says every child has the right to education, but apparently, not in nigeria. The uneducated nigerian child plays second fiddle to beautifull buildings,estates and airplanes.

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22803632

I am not surprised.
The state govts who should be reponsible for basic primary education are not doing enough,especially in northern Nigeria.
It's time people held their respective state governors responsible.
Btw,the world trade centre in abuja is majorly funded by private investors.

A country who do not invest in education have no future.

But watching the news they can these simple mathematics:

New Maths 2013:

Teacher: Which is greater between 16 and 19?
Jang: 16
Teacher: Jonathan, is Jang correct?
Jonathan: Yes ma
Teacher: Clap for Jonathan and Jang
Teacher: What is the two-third (2/3) of 32?
Wike: 5
Teacher: Patience, what are you discussing with Wikey? What is the correct answer?
Patience: Ma, the answer are 5.
Teacher: Clap for Patience and Wike.

In the world! what about China?

iterator24: In the world! what about China?

my dear. In the WORLD. More than china,india,bangladesh,pakistan, mongolia,nepal...mention them. Shame on nigeria. Education...for crying out loud. The most basic of basics, let's not talk about polio. Nigeria is the only country on the african continent still fighting polio. According to the u.n and the bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only country globally still struggling to fight polio.

Horus: A country who do not invest in education have no future.

Thank God, the country will break up one day.

How can the nigerian government be spending billions on national airline, world trade center, eko atlantic and many other secondary frevolities,

Eko Atlantic is funded by private investors, it is not a project of the Nigerian Government.

Symphony007: my dear. In the WORLD. More than china,india,bangladesh,pakistan, mongolia,nepal...mention them. Shame on nigeria. Education...for crying out loud. The most basic of basics, let's not talk about polio. Nigeria is the only country on the african continent still fighting polio. According to the u.n and the bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only country globally still struggling to fight polio.

Plz, be sure of what you what to say b4 actuali saying them in public..

Horus:

Eko Atlantic is funded by private investors, it is not a project of the Nigerian Government.

if only the government urged it's private investors to invest in the country's future(education) rather the luxurious frevolities. It's like a man with cancer dying but wear beautifull clothes and make up. He looks good outside, but inside, he is dying.

Symphony007: my dear. In the WORLD. More than china,india,bangladesh,pakistan, mongolia,nepal...mention them. Shame on nigeria. Education...for crying out loud. The most basic of basics, let's not talk about polio. Nigeria is the only country on the african continent still fighting polio. According to the u.n and the bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only country globally still struggling to fight polio.

Plz, be sure of what you what to say b4 actuali saying them in public....@topic, d statistics on out-of-school children for Nigeria is as shocking as they come. Govts at all levels, esp in d North, as well as d diff strata of society (again, esp in d north) shld do more to reverse this unacceptable and potentially dangerous trend

taharqa2: Plz, be sure of what you what to say b4 actuali saying them in public....@topic, d statistics on out-of-school children for Nigeria is as shocking as they come. Govts at all levels, esp in d North, as well as d diff strata of society (again, esp in d north) shld do more to reverse this unacceptable and potential dangerous trend

go and reserch. I direct you to the u,n or bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only countries still revaged by polio. Even if other countries experience it, it has been reduced to it's bearest minimum.

Symphony007: go and reserch. I direct you to the u,n or bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only countries still revaged by polio. Even if other countries experience it, it has been reduced to it's bearest minimum.

You go and research a certain country call Somalia, and d No of polio cases they hv reported this year.. Google is just a click away, Guy

Nigeria don caRRey fOrst for bad tin again!
Time to start fasting and praying for BARRENESS to hit AFRICA FOR AT LEAST 40 YEARS!
Haba!

Why give birth to 'GENERATIONAL HAWKERS'?
Almajiris EVERYWHERE!
Mu he he he he

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ONE WOMAN OPENED HER TOTO TO 'BORN' 3 female 'BOLEE-SELLERS' for one or more USEEEEEEEEEELESS PAUPERS in one lifetime?

Hmmmm! Tufiaaaaaaaaaaaakwa!

I praaaaaaaaaaise my H-AGNOSTIC GOD FOR ABORTIONS!

To the Botswana government, Botswana education takes the high priority. In the sector of Botswana education, the Ministry of Education spends at around 30 percent of the public spending.

taharqa2: You go and research a certain country call Somalia, and d No of polio cases they hv reported this year.. Google is just a click away, Guy

according to www.polioeradication.org. Three countries still have polio as an epidemic, and they are pakistan,afganistan and NIGERIA. With each country reporting the highest statistic.

Symphony007: my dear. In the WORLD. More than china,india,bangladesh,pakistan, mongolia,nepal...mention them. Shame on nigeria. Education...for crying out loud. The most basic of basics, let's not talk about polio. Nigeria is the only country on the african continent still fighting polio. According to the u.n and the bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only country globally still struggling to fight polio.

U.N may be wrong

Symphony007: go and reserch. I direct you to the u,n or bill and melina gates foundation. Nigeria,pakistan and afganistan are the only countries still revaged by polio. Even if other countries experience it, it has been reduced to it's bearest minimum.

wel ve never met sm1 havn polio in ma life...i dnt knw where they live

Symphony007: according to www.polioeradication.org. Three countries still have polio as an epidemic, and they are pakistan,afganistan and NIGERIA. With each country reporting the highest statistic.

My frnd, am talking of d World Polio Report for this year released early this week. Google d shiit...

Yes Nigeria has a sizeable number of kids out of school going by the attached pic ...

not news nau!!

taharqa2: My frnd, am talking of d World Polio Report for this year released early this week. Google d shiit...

google what shit? I just gave you a website link. If you're so sure of your claim, pls give me a link.

I-pledge:
wel ve never met sm1 havn polio in ma life...i dnt knw where they live

you've not seen lame people begging, you've not seen diformed kids? That is caused by polio.

@Post

I am not surprised.

No wonder recruitment at Boko Haram keeps getting massive applications.

Education -rara
Future -mba
Hope - babu
Hopelessness sef no dey

Why won't they want to go to paradise to meet better life??. We are creating problems for our future if this dangerous trend is not put in a check.

The statistics is because of the actual population of Nigeria and not fully because of the ineffectiveness of our leaders though it is still a factor.
when will these organization use a positive method for their statistics,e.g country with the most children in school

jchime: The statistics is because of the actual population of Nigeria and not fully because of the ineffectiveness of our leaders though it is still a factor.
when will these organization use a positive method for their statistics,e.g country with the most children in school

that makes it more shamefull..if china. India and pakistan who are tripple of us are not topping the lst then why are we?

Symphony007: that makes it more shamefull..if china. India and pakistan who are tripple of us are not topping the lst then why are we?

Apart from there population, they have a better government, I just factored in the population stuff. And who said Pakistan has a good educational system

Symphony007: google what shit? I just gave you a website link. If you're so sure of your claim, pls give me a link.

*smh*

Somalia hadn't had a case of polio for nearly six years. But in the past few months, the virus has come back. Now the East African country has the worst polio outbreak anywhere in the world.

Twenty new cases of polio were this week in Somalia by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. That brings the total number of cases in the Horn of Africa to 73. The rest of the world combined has tallied only 59 cases so far this year.

Health workers are worried that the virus could gain a foothold in the Horn of Africa and jeopardize the multibillion-dollar effort to wipe out the virus worldwide.
The last time polio struck Somalia, the virus spread across the Horn of Africa into Yemen and eventually over into Southeast Asia.

The last time polio struck Somalia, the virus spread across the Horn of Africa into Yemen and eventually over into Southeast Asia.
Courtesy of Google, ORION-ME

Until this recent outbreak, global efforts to eradicate polio appeared to be making remarkable progress. Last year the number of children paralyzed by polio hit a record low at 223.

This year it was looking like there were going to be even fewer cases. The last significant pockets of the virus appeared to be isolated in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.

Then in May, a 2-year-old girl in Mogadishu became the first confirmed case of polio in Somalia in more than six years.

The number of polio cases in Somalia is increasing by the day, says Dr. Nasir Yusuf, who leads UNICEF's immunization efforts in eastern and southern Africa.

Part of the problem, he says, is that the majority of children in Somalia have never been immunized against polio. "We have an outbreak in a population that has been quite vulnerable for quite some time," Yusuf says.

Somalia has the rate of polio vaccination in the world after Equatorial Guinea, according to the World Health Organization.

In response to the current outbreak, there have been five emergency polio immunization campaigns in Somalia since May. The Somali government directs the campaigns, but it doesn't control or have access to vast swaths of the country. Some of the most recent polio cases have occurred in areas that are considered off limits to vaccination teams.
Ado Ibrahim carries his son Aminu through a village in northern Nigeria. Aminu was paralyzed by polio in August.

Underscoring the lack of security in the region even for health workers, two health workers with Doctors Without Borders were this week after having been held hostage in Somalia for almost two years. The women had been working in the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, where eight new polio cases were in May.

The current outbreak is forcing governments throughout the region, including parts of the Middle East, to launch supplemental vaccination drives, Yusuf says, because polio is capable of spreading quickly.

"A week after the virus was reported in south central Somalia, one of the viruses got into the Somali refugee camp in the most eastern part of Kenya," he says. "So that tells you how fast this virus made it."

EDITOR'S ADD NOTE, Monday, July 22, 3:30 p.m.

According to the WHO, the first polio case in the outbreak actually April 30, in Kenya. Then the second case was confirmed May 9 in Somalia. Either way, the outbreak spanned a vast geographic area quickly.

The virus reproduces inside the human gut, and many people carry it but show no symptoms. This give the virus the opportunity to travel long distances inside people and then get shed into the environment through feces.

The World Health Organization traced the poliovirus in Somalia to one in West Africa. Nigeria is the only place there where polio is still endemic.

Before these cases in the Horn of Africa, the end of the multibillion-dollar effort appeared to be in sight.

The Somali outbreak is now forcing UNICEF, the WHO and other international agencies to dedicate vast resources to boost polio vaccination coverage throughout East Africa and parts of the Middle East. Those are resources that can't be used to attack the virus in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria — which appeared, until now, to be the last few places where polio had a foothold.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/07/22/203601730/SOMALIA-POLIO-OUTBREAK

Symphony007: you've not seen lame people begging, you've not seen diformed kids? That is caused by polio.

I c dem bt mostly hausas n dat's cos they claim polio vacine is oyibo's method of defertilizing dem. Out of Schl is also nothern problem n I'm sure Anambra federel alocatn is nt up to what kn n some other northern states colect. So why play politics wit dis.

OP please correct the topic - [size=14pt]northern nigeria[/size], not the whole country.
SE is more educated than some european countries!