Ruby Rabiu and Ruqayyah Yusuf Aliyu
24 April 2008
Abuja — Nigeria may not achieve the international target of Education for All (EFA) by 2015,the Minister of Education, Dr. Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu said Tuesday in Abuja.
Speaking at a press briefing in commemoration of the 2008 EFA week, the minister said Nigeria and Pakistan were listed as being far from achieving the EFA 2015 goal in the E-9 report.
According to him, "the alarming figure of eleven million out-of-school children shows that Nigeria still has a long way towards achieving the EFA goals by 2015. This was underscored by the E-9 Report which stated that Nigeria is one of the two E-9 countries that might not achieve EFA by 2015."
The minister said, " the theme of this year's celebration, 'Quality Education to End Exclusion' was carefully selected to draw attention of over 80million children of school going age world wide and to about 11million Nigerian children in particular who are out of school. It is designed to draw attention to the fact that access and retention levels particularly for categories of people such as girls, children with special needs and those in difficult circumstances are still low despite government efforts towards attaining the EFA target by 2015".
The minister added that, "the inclusion of these groups of people will be an integral part of strategies to achieve the EFA by 2015.
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