FG must resolve Nigeria’s literacy crisis – NAS
He called for the safety of schools, especially in Northern Nigeria, to prevent mass abductions and the shutdown of schools; reform of the National Commission on Mass Literacy, Adult Education and Non- Formal Education with an expansion of its reach to rural communities; and education policies to be integrated with interventions addressing poverty, hunger, insecurity, displacement, social protection and gender inequality.
By Jeremiah Urowayino The National Association of Seadogs (Pyrates Confraternity) has demanded urgent and concrete action on the literacy crisis in Nigeria.
Meribole acknowledged the Federal Government’s efforts to solve the literacy crisis through the HOPE for Quality Basic Education for All (HOPE-EDU) programme, unveiled by the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration, stressing, however, that the implementation must move from pronouncements to make foundational literacy a national emergency.
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