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54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by storchsbm(op): 10:49am On Sep 09, 2015
The number of illiterate Nigerians is estimated at 54 million, out of the estimated population of 180 million people, the federal government revealed on Tuesday.

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

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Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by gaetano: 10:50am On Sep 09, 2015
shocked

Lemme fix it....



54 Million Northern Nigerians Are Illiterate
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by Cutehector(m): 10:51am On Sep 09, 2015
The op and d woman in d pic are among the list!
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by adonbilivit: 10:51am On Sep 09, 2015
so what about that? when thousands write jamb every year, meet the cut off mark but still get rejected. why won't 54million Nigerians be illiterates? there are no adequate schools, so its impossible for most Nigerians to be literates. comot joor
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by Sandydayz(f): 10:58am On Sep 09, 2015
That's too bad..But then how was dis estimated? Those who can read and write or those who went to college?
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by ammyluv2002(f):
I don't believe this undecided


54 million? What's the population of Nigeria then? So they are saying almost half of Nigerians are illiterates? undecided
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by NIGERIALOLoCOM(m): 11:24am On Sep 09, 2015
Some folks will come here to call our president illiterate. Quite dishonourable for that exalted office!
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by Nobody: 11:25am On Sep 09, 2015
These are Buhari's political bloc
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by Nobody: 11:26am On Sep 09, 2015
ammyluv2002:
I don't believe this undecided


54 million? What's the population of Nigeria then? So they are saying almost half of Nigerians are illiterate? undecided
This is where Buhari's voter base is grin
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by ammyluv2002(f): 11:31am On Sep 09, 2015
WombRaiders:
This is where Buhari's voter base is grin
Na you sabi o
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by storchsbm(op): 11:46am On Sep 09, 2015
@WombRaiders: really
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by glassjar1: 11:50am On Sep 09, 2015
54 million uneducated savage leprosy and polio stricken , rag live ,poverty dominated north grin grin grin grin grin
Re: 54 Million Nigerians Are Illiterate by ahaz: 11:55am On Sep 09, 2015
NIGERIALOLoCOM:
Some folks will come here to call our president illiterate. Quite dishonourable for that exalted office!
Are you refairing to the APC who started it or those who copv from Them?
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