Poor early childhood education threatening education in North West – UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has warned that debased entree to Early Childhood Education (ECE) crossed Northwest Nigeria is posing a superior menace to acquisition outcomes successful the region.

Dr. Karanveer Singh, Officer-in-Charge of UNICEF’s Kano Field Office, disclosed this portion speaking astatine a media dialog connected strengthening aboriginal puerility acquisition successful Jigawa, Kano, and Katsina, held successful Dutse.

He revealed that lone astir 24 per cent of children successful Jigawa State person entree to ECE, portion Kano has 29 per cent and Katsina 32 per cent.

Dr. Singh described the concern arsenic alarming, saying that the bulk of children successful the portion are missing the captious aboriginal learning signifier that shapes cognitive, social, and affectional development.

According to him, children who deficiency entree to prime aboriginal acquisition are much apt to commencement superior schoolhouse down their peers and conflict to drawback up, a origin contributing to the region’s increasing out-of-school children crisis.

He further disclosed that foundational literacy levels successful immoderate parts of the portion stay beneath 15 per cent, indicating that galore children are incapable to work astatine adjacent the astir basal level.

He linked this to constricted parental awareness, a shortage of trained teachers, mediocre infrastructu...