LITERACY RATE IN NIGERIA.PART 4

at 96.30%;Ekiti,95.79%;Rivers,95.76%;Abia, 94.24%;Anambra,92.11%,Osun,90.57%;Edo,90.53%;Enugu,89.46%;and Cross River,89%.Frankly speaking,it might take an eternity to bridge this huge gap between this light and darkness.The former minister of finance Shamsudeen Usman in 2011,speaking to the world bank statistics at the Northern Nigerian Economic and Investment Summit said northern nigeria has the highest children illiteracy rate in the whole world.He blamed northern leaders for this heinous atrocity of deliberate backwardness and that despite his admonition six years after the moribund education profile did not change abit.Particularly worrisome was the enrolment rate of the school age girl child for the north east and northwest according to world bank stood at 20% and 25% in contrast to south west and south east at 85% and 75%for southsouth.In the same Summit,the Emir of Kano Muhammed Sanusi a vocal critics of chronic under development in the north,blamed the British for dismal education profile of the North