LITERACY RATE IN NIGERIA.PART 6.

will keep at bay preventable diseases while cultivating basic hygiene standard,know right medical personel to patronise and not quacks.Enlightened women with adequate antenatal care during pregnancy will be well delivered of their babies.This will help leads in the long run to help reduce the nation's high infant and maternal mortality rates estimated to be second highest in the world.A lot of good provisions were made with the promulgation of universal basic education law of 1999.It guarantees all children free and compulsory education for the first 9 years of school age.This included 6yrs of primary schools and 3yrs of junior secondary school education.These are glaring opportunities provided by law that the northern oligarchy instead of taking advantage of them are bent on destroying the implementation of free and compulsory primary and junior secondary school program in the country.The Almajiri schools built by the erstwhile goodluck jonathan regime were neglected for many years under lock and keys .