LITERACY RATE IN NIGERIA.PART 3

Whereas in the south less than 3% of children in the age bracket of 6 and 16 are not in school.They recorded 10%,8%,6% for Ebonyi,Oyo and Ogun states respectively.while for Abia it is 1% and 2% recorded for both Lagos and Enugu and same trend reverbrated on numeracy skills where it is higher in the south than the north according to NEDS report.There is no doubt that the highest illiteracy rate in the whole world is in the north.According to literacy index published in 2017 by National Bureau of Statistics,states in the North west,Northeast and North central have the lowest literacy rates in the country.Yobe,7.23% has the lowest;Zamfara,19.16%;katsina,10.36%;Sokoto,15.01%;Bauchi,19.26%;Kebbi,20.51% and Niger 22.88%.The report claim Taraba at 72%has the highest literacy rate in the north.In contrast to North,the highest literacy in the south and the country Imo state put at 96.43%. In the top 10 literacy rates in the country when compared to the north,the gap is frightening.Lagos state follows Imo state closely