How to raise public school standards in Nigeria

Wilfred
Wilfred
Aug 26, 2017 · 1 min read

…private schools to the rescue

Bad education

In Numbers: Why our schools need urgent attention

6 %- The amount of the 2017 national budget of recovery and growth allocated to education

26%- The recommended allocation by UNESCO

11 %- In 2016, 33 states of the federation had allocated N653.53 billion (11 Percent) of their combined total budget estimates of N6.1 trillion to education.

0- Number of Nigerian Universities ranked among the top 800 in the world or among the top 10 in Africa.

1187- Number of public junior secondary schools in Nigeria (2014)

59%- Students who obtained minimum of credits in five (5) subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

120- minimum JAMB cut off mark to gain admission into the Nigerian Universities.

104- Number of Unity schools

276- girls kidnapped from a government secondary school in Chibok, Borno state in 2014

2- Number of students killed in Queens College, a federal unity school in a 2017 diarrhoea outbreak.

59- Students murdered in their secondary school, a federal government college in Buni Yadi, Yobe state in 2014

Just how bad is it really?

What gives?

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