Address Nigeria’s out-of-school children crisis, Falana urges N’Assembly

In his statement titled; Refusal of state governments to access sixty eight billion naira to educate twenty point two million children, the Senior Advocate of Nigeria who expressed concern over refusal of state governments to comply with section 3 of the Education Reforms Act, called on the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, to disburse the fund directly.

The call he said is in line with the combined effect of sections 12 and 17 which have saddled the Commission with the responsibility to ensure effective implementation, evaluation and monitoring of the programme and help teachers and other stakeholders in Basic and Secondary Education institutions in Nigeria to identify areas of deficiencies in achieving curriculum goals and help to remedy such deficiencies.

He further threatened to seek an order of mandamus to compel the government to do the needful, if the sum of sixty eight billion naira unmatched grant is not accessed by the thirty six state governments and the Federal Capital Territory before January 15, 2024, for the education of out-of-school-children.