Nigerian children growing up without basic digital, maths skills – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has lamented that lone 1 retired of 4 children successful Nigeria who spell to schoolhouse tin work decently and bash basal mathematics astatine the property of 14.

Celine Lafoucriere, Chief of UNICEF Lagos Field Office, stated this on Wednesday, at a 2-day Media dialog connected integer learning, artificial quality (AI) and Skill improvement for out-of-school children successful Ede, Osun State.

Lafoucriere added that implicit 10 cardinal children bash not spell to schoolhouse successful the country.

She opined that the figures are not spreadsheet oregon authorities reports, but those sitting connected someone’s desk. 

She added that the children are besides those who are increasing up without the skills they request to get a job, to instrumentality attraction of their families, to instrumentality attraction of themselves and to beryllium portion of the system that is forming astir them

The Chief of UNICEF Lagos Field Office, however, advocated integer learning resources and artificial quality acquisition to guarantee that the children person a accidental astatine a livelihood successful future,

“The children who cognize however to usage AI volition person a chance. The ones who don’t volition beryllium near out. Right now, retired of schoolhouse children successful Nigeria are the ones being near out, and amongst them, arsenic usual, unfortunately, girls are the ...