64m Nigerians Are Illiterate !!!

More than 64 million Nigerians, constituting 46 per cent of the country’s 140 million population, are illiterate and cannot contribute to socio-economic development of the country.

The Board Chairman of the National Commission for Mass, Adult and Non-formal Education (NCME), Paschal Bafyau, said this yesterday when the Senate Committee on Education visited the commission’s headquarters yesterday.

Bafyau told the lawmakers who were on oversight visit that it was necessary for government to give an accelerated impetus in its annual budget to the commission in order to eliminate the problem.

He also said the commission needs a total of 200, 000 facilitators who will reach the target of at least 150,000 illiterates in each state of the federation.

The Executive Secretary of the commission, Alhaji Jibril Yusuf Paiko, said they were financially incapacitated to effectively meet their statutory mandate of ensuring Nigerians are educated at both formal an non formal sectors.

He also said apart from Lagos and FCT, other state governments have been failing to settle the N7,000 allowances to the facilitators, calling on the federal government to intervene by calling on governors to accomplish their promises.

http://www.nigeriaindependent.com/index.php/news/nigeria/806230-64m-Nigerians-are-illiterate.html

Posted: at 3-11-2010 01:40 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

Thank allaha I no pollow por the illitrate feofle

Posted: at 3-11-2010 01:59 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

Thank God for my Generation.

Posted: at 3-11-2010 03:24 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

Even with official resistant/working permission many among them r not contributing anything good to the oversea countries. Many like to stay lazy and behaving anyhow. Instead of demanding an anual budget for the commission in order, the problem should be taken by the head. Nigeria has to take care  of his citzens, build up invironment in nigeria, providing free school education, transport and health care, creating new jobs. If nigeria would be a healthy country, the citizens would not longer like to move out of the country by all means.

Posted: at 3-11-2010 04:12 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

Dont mind him. Even those that are literates, where are jobs for them to do.........some have turn to arm robbers and kipnappers thereby serving as a threat to the socio economic of the country......Nonsence!

Posted: at 3-11-2010 04:28 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

Take it or leave it,the main problem in Nigeria and Africa at large is illiteracy, which causes low standard then later cause anything goes

Posted: at 3-11-2010 04:58 PM (14 years ago) | Upcoming

I love the way {sweetgift} put the phyuking statement Statement, our leaders are very stupid na em make me leave them go dey scam for outside country, but I go still come back to kidnap those phyuking leaders.

This is buz and the person that said that 64m Nigerians Are Illiterate is very crazy !!! lol
 

Posted: at 3-11-2010 06:05 PM (14 years ago) | Newbie

and  so


wat a senseless post

Posted: at 3-11-2010 07:22 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

hahahaha loiz

Posted: at 3-11-2010 07:41 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac

and so what....don't mind those stupid leaders,what have they(literate leaders) done..rubbish

Posted: at 3-11-2010 10:31 PM (14 years ago) | Gistmaniac