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Challenges Facing Education in Nigeria

Award-winning author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie writes for Guernica on branding, charity, and class in Nigerian schools.

Nigeria: Why Are You Here?

Guernica, 15 January 2012

I came at the wrong time. It was mid-March 2011, a few weeks before general elections, and every surface in Lagos - compound walls, gates, even buses - was covered with political… Read more »

Homework time.

Nigeria: 'Sending Children to Schools Not Enough'

Daily Trust, 4 May 2012

Parents should see the education of their children as their primary responsibility and not to be leave everything in the hands of teachers and school environments. Read more »
Nigeria: How to Save Education Sector, by Amuka, Banjo, Ogbeh

Vanguard, 4 May 2012

SOME leading academics, entrepreneurs and politicians, yesterday, dissected the Nigerian education sector and came away with a heart-rending view: the future of education in the… Read more »
Nigeria: Real Change Comes From the Top - Mrs. Gaye Lantz

Vanguard, 3 May 2012

The American International School of Lagos (AISL) recently hosted the Nigerian International Schools Conference 2012 at the school's Victoria Island campus. About 300 teachers and… Read more »

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Nigeria: '95 Percent of Mothers Are Illiterate'

The head of a body regulating university education in Nigeria has said the country must return to its roots to tackle the declining quality of education, amid claims that nine out ... Read more »
- Nigeria: Nine Out of Ten Nigerian Mothers Are Unable to Read and Write
- Nigeria: 95 Percent Mothers Illiterate - NUC Boss
Are Nigeria's Schools A New Target for Boko Haram?

54 African countries will gather in Abuja to discuss educational developments in the wake of thousands of pupils being forced out of formal education over Boko Haram attacks on ... Read more »
- Nigeria: School Attendance Down After Boko Haram Attacks
- Nigeria: 54 Nations Storm Abuja for Education Ministers' Conference