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Students learn on bare floor of dilapidated classroom in Nasarawa

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Education in Nasarawa

Students of Pilot Primary School in Bassa, Kokona Local Government Area, Nasarawa are pictured sitting on the bare floor of their classroom.

Education in Nasarawa

Nasarawa, in North-Central Nigeria, has one of the highest rates of out-of-school children in Nigeria. Africa’s most populous country currently has 13.2 million out-of-school children, the highest rate anywhere on earth, according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

The rate — about 47 per cent — means that one in every five children is out of school.

Most of these children are in Nigeria’s North East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where Boko Haram activities have disrupted academic activities for a decade now. Other states and regions are also seriously affected, and one of them is Nasarawa in the North central region.

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