LITERACY RATE IN NIGERIA.PART 1

Certainly Nigeria for close to sixty years of independence has not made significant progress in reducing her high rate of illiteracy.It is a common knowledge that majority of the 60m to 75million illiterates in the country are in the north and the challenge of halting high illiteracy prevalence in the north does not seem to constitute immediate priority of the northern cabal deliberately bent on holding the country perenially backward.Pathetically,still compounding the malaise with frightening dimension and dire implication or likely effect on poverty,health,life expectancy and other human development indicators.According to Punch Editorial(December 20,2011,pg.18)which juxtaposed Nigerian literacy scorecard with other countries and fellow entrants into E-9 group unveiled the appaling rate of her literacy backwardness.It noted that other countries made attempt to reduce their non literate population.China for instance,made startling improvement to her nonliteracy population cut by half between 2000-2010......