The year 2025 revealed how poor policy implementation undermined security, economy, and governance.
In the Kwara state communities covered for this story, truant pupils, absentees, insufficient teachers and inadequate learning materials have also contributed to putting pupils in the communities at a learning disadvantage.
Oluwaferanmi Bello, a 2024 Journalism for Liberty Fellow with the Liberalist Centre, pointed out in the publication that the policy contradicts the core principle of merit-based access to education, as enshrined in Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Nigeria’s education minister is asking the country’s future to wait.
Several cases of mismanagement of funds and corruption are affecting the education sector, particularly in the southwest of Nigeria.
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