'Nigeria has 20 million Children Out of School'- Obi Condemns Tinubu's Scholarship Offer to St.Lucia Students

'Nigeria has 20 million Children Out of School'- Obi Condemns Tinubu's Scholarship Offer to St.Lucia Students

Former Labour Party presidential candidate,  Peter Obi, has criticized the Nigerian president's decision to offer scholarships to students in St. Lucia, citing the country's own education crisis. In a recent post on X, Obi argued that the president's action shows a lack of prioritization of education in Nigeria, where approximately 20 million children are out of school.Obi highlighted Nigeria's education crisis, with millions of children lacking access to education. He questioned the president's decision to offer scholarships to St. Lucia students while Nigerian children are struggling to access education.The former Governor called on Nigerians to reject these misplaced priorities and work towards building a better nation for themselves and their children.His post reads: "I have consistently maintained that our underdevelopment is due to Leadership failure."It is heartbreaking that our President, who is the leader of a country with the highest number of out of school children in the world and with the students in the capital of his own nation Abuja presently not attending schools, would travel to St. Lucia and offer scholarships to children there, while his own country’s education system is in ruins, and even currently his nation’s capital, the Federal Capital Territory, the supposed seat of governance, have public schools shut down and closed for months."This is not leadership, it is negligence at its peak. It is an act of betrayal against the Nigerian child."Nigeria has approximately 20 million children out of school, according to UNICEF, the highest number globally, with a literacy rate of under 60% far below the global average of 87%. Similarly, the life expectancy stands at a mere 54 years, out of the global average measurement of above 70 years, one of the lowest in the world."On Human Development Index (HDI), which is the most critical measure of development, Nigeria is ranked in the "Low Category" at 161 out of 193 countries measured, while St. Lucia, a Caribbean nation, has a literacy rate of over 90% which is above the global average of 87%."In life expectancy of more than 72 years, which is within the global average."On HDI which Nigeria is in the Low category, they air in the "High Category""So tell me, what sense does it make that a president of a country with such terrible and dire statistics would travel to a country with better indexes of development especially in education and still offer them scholarships funded by Nigerian taxpayers when Nigeria children are largely out of school and the teachers not yet paid for months?"Mr. President, by offering St Lucia students a scholarship, shows he knows how important education is, while depriving Nigerian students of the same access to education."We must, as a nation, reject these continued normalisations of misplaced priorities and build a better nation for us and our children".

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 - NigerianEye

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