Over 800 Schools and 194, 664 Students affected by Boko Haram Attack - CCSG

Over 800 schools and about 194,664 students have been affected by the several Boko Haram attacks in the North Eastern region of Nigeria according to the Coalition of Civil Society Groups (CCSG) independent evaluation and assessment performance project report on the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC).

The research was carried in collaboration with the Sihle Masonso-Africa Partnership for Civil Society, Kristen Strong-World Economic Development and Emeretine Christisle-Centre for Educational Development, United Kingdom.

In his presentation, the CCSG president, Comrade Etuk Bassey Williams, said the bleak future that Nigeria education sector faces means that it would be not be able to meet the education for all goals 1,2 and 4 by the year 2015 as Nigeria is one of the only 15 countries that UNESCO projects will have fewer than 80 per cent of its primary school age children enrolled by 2015.

The report shows that conflicts, gender discrimination, child labour, ignorance and poverty are majorly responsible for the high rate of out-of-school children in Nigeria among other things.

The group called on the government to embark on national free feeding programme for all primary school children so as to reduce the high incidence of out-of-school children as poverty has largely responsible for this high rate in Nigeria.

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