Today, Nigerian children will join their counterparts across
the world to celebrate this year’s Children’s Day. But while their mates in
other climes are learning with ease with good facilities, public primary school
pupils in the country are learning under very terrible condition in schools
that are in a state of disrepair.
Investigations carried out by our source revealed that many
of these pupils are learning with difficulty in dilapidated structures and
environments that are not suitable for learning.
Our correspondents who visited schools in states including
Bauchi, Benue, Cross River, Gombe, Ekiti, Imo, Plateau, Enugu, and Osun noticed
that pupils in many of the institutions were sitting on bare floors using their
laps as tables. Some extremely unlucky ones learn under the trees subjected to
the vicissitudes of inclement weather.
Teachers, who spoke with the newsmen on condition of
anonymity for fear of persecution by intolerant government officials said
besides leaky roofs in the institutions, the schools lacked functional toilets,
potable water, libraries, and sick bays.
Except in a few public schools in rural areas, classrooms in
most public primary schools in urban cities visited by our correspondents were
overcrowded.
They blamed the state governments for the decrepit state of
basic public education in the country.
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