The National President of National Association of Private Schools (NAPPS), Dr. Sally Adukwu Bolujoko has called the Federal Government to review the nations’ education curriculum to meet the standard of the 21st century.
He also urged governments and relevant stakeholders to address the quantum of social vices presently confronting the lives of Nigerian children.
He stressed that the current curriculum no longer meets the educational requirement of the Nigerian child.
He explained that Nigerian kids are facing unprecedented challenges such as insecurity, violence, deprivation, insurgency, abject poverty, poor access to quality education and health care, child trafficking as well as child abuse
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He decried the number of out of school children currently standing t over 10 million while there are over 2 million in IDPs across the country despite claims of an increase in school enrollment in the country.
“The state of Nigerian education is quite pathetic. Littered all over the country are dysfunctional dilapidated school buildings with poorly motivated teachers.