20m Nigerian children lost between primary, secondary school

as FG vows to scraps failed education policy

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja

The Federal Government on Tuesday revealed that more than 20 million Nigerian children who enrolled in primary schools never made it to senior secondary education, exposing what it described as one of the country’s gravest education crises.

In a decisive move to reverse the trend, the government also announced plans to abolish the controversial disarticulation policy that separated Junior Secondary SchoolsJSS,from Senior Secondary Schools ,SSS, declaring that the arrangement had failed and contributed to the alarming number of out-of-school children.

Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, disclosed this in Abuja during the inauguration of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) Ministerial Implementation and Monitoring Committee.