Nigeria’s Aberration: Stakeholders Meetings With Bandits, No Round-table On Education By Olabisi Deji-folutile
With the way things are, there is no point comparing the lots of Nigerian children with their counterparts in saner climes. I mean, how do you place a Nigerian child side by side with children from Luxembourg, Finland, Sweden, or Norway for instance? It’s like comparing sleep with death.
by Olabisi Deji-Folutile
Mar 04, 2021
School should be a fun place - an environment filled with wonder and adventure. Ordinarily, every child should look forward to being in school. The experience should be magical. But quite unfortunately, for millions of Nigerian children, especially those in the Northern part of the country, school has become synonymous with torture. One only needs to look at the expression on the faces of the students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, in Zamfara State after their release from their abductors on Tuesday to understand how torturous schooling has become for these kids. Their looks depict fear, shock, agony and confusion. One of them, Hafsat Anka, said their abductors threatened “to kill, fry and eat them if they misbehaved.”