The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says more than 9.7 million Nigerian pupils are at risk of not returning to school.
Executive Director of UNICEF, Catherine Russell, said this during the launch of the Nigeria Learning Platform, an online, mobile and soon-to-be offline learning platform in Abuja.
The platform will continuously educate three million learners in 2022 and 12 million by 2025.
According to the fund, the Nigerian Learning Passport is designed for pre-primary, primary and secondary school learning.
It said children, youth and teachers can access a digitalised curriculum providing learning materials in all core curriculum subjects for primary one to six and all Junior and Senior Secondary School (JSS and SSS) classes.
Russell said: “Before COVID-19, about 10.5 million Nigerian children, aged between 5 and 14, were not in school. Today in Nigeria, more than 9.7 million children are at risk of never returning to school, their learning left behind. The learning passport can help change that.
“By offering simple, easy and fun ways to learn, as well as tailor-made training programmes, the learning platform will help respond to the needs of every child.
“With online, offline and mobile options, it can help us reach the most vulnerable and marginalised learners.”
