Nigeria Country Study 2012
Country study on out-of-school children
Highlights
The study shows that the attainment of EFA and the MDGs in Nigeria by the year 2015 is threatened by its huge OOSC burden. The threat is compounded by the existence of two distinct education access zones in the country, with the northern states trailing behind the southern states. Gender is still an issue, with a poor level of girls’ participation particularly in the northern states, while adolescent boys’ disaffection with schooling is a strong challenge in the south east zone. Rural areas are disadvantaged almost everywhere. All over the country, wealth and socio-economic status confers a definite advantage in terms of enrolment, attendance and completion. There has been quite an impressive list of initiatives to address the demand and supply side barriers and bottlenecks impeding the attainment of EFA and the MDGs in the country, but these have yielded mixed results. The initiatives are being carried out by a wide variety of agencies, with little coordination among them and so very little synergy dividend.
