Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, has called on the National Assembly to address Nigeria’s worrisome out-of-school crisis, to save the future of the country.
Falana made the call in a speech he read at a summit on Nigeria’s out-of-school crisis, hosted by the UK charity IA Foundation in Lagos at the weekend.
The activist said that the refusal of state governments to make counterpart contributions to the Universal Basic Education Fund in the country was hampering access to basic education in Nigeria.
A 2022 UNESCO report said that approximately 20 million children are out of school in Nigeria, which is Africa’s most populous nation.
Falana, in his speech, made available to the press in Abuja on Sunday, stressed the need for the National Assembly to act fast, lamenting that the number of out-of-school children in the country was alarming.
According to him, pursuant to Section 2 of the Compulsory Free Universal Basic Education Act, it is…