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| Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by Ovularia: 3:03pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Lagos attains 92% literacy rate http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5649778-146/lagos_attains_92_literacy_rate_.csp December 5, 2010 02:16AM The Lagos State Agency for Mass Education on Friday said that no fewer than 17, 447, 905 inhabitants of the metropolis, which has an approximate population of 18, 965, 114 people, are literate. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the figure represents 92 percent of the population, compared to 1,517,209 illiterate people, representing 8 percent. Benedict Adebisi, the director of the agency, told NAN in Lagos that the statistics originated from a recent survey by the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education. Mr. Adebisi said that compared to most other states of the federation, the literacy rate in Lagos was impressive. “The state has been able to achieve this low illiteracy rate owing to the commitment of the government and the promotion of education among the illiterate population in the past 10 years,” he said. The director explained that the feat was achieved through the establishment of many literacy centres in the metropolis to widen access and provide appropriate literacy materials. “No fewer than 401,000 new literate people have been produced in the state within the period,” Mr. Adebisi said. He reiterated the commitment of the state to attaining and even surpassing the UN Education for All target of 50 percent reduction in illiteracy rate by 2015. To achieve this and even attain zero illiteracy by the target year, the director said that the agency had evolved strategies to produce no fewer than 3000 new literate people in each of the 57 local council development areas of the state. “This is on the proviso that there is no influx of illiterate population into the state from the other states of the federation,” he said. Mr. Adebisi said that to actualise the target, the agency is collaborating with religious organisations, NGOs, and community-based organisations to deliver adult education to learners. The director, however, said that the agency was handicapped by inadequate funding, as well as logistics. He explained that the agency lacked such facilities as boats, life jackets, and vehicles that could enable the agency to penetrate the mainly illiterate rural and coastal areas of the state. He commended the federal government for the timely release of funds to aid the agency’s work, and implored the Lagos State government to increase its funding of the agency. Posted by Lagosian on Dec 05 2010 This is impossible! With the numbers in rural Lagos and the number of illiterate elderly we have and add the number of migrants who are largely dependent on getting educated in Lagos, it is clear this number is flawed. It would be great if these numbers were accurate but at this point its just - wishful thinking. 92% indeed, even nations with more advanced educational systems can't boast of 92%. Show us your numbers. Show.The.Darn.Numbers!!! Recent Survey my hat. Posted by Onari on Dec 05 2010 92% literacy! Mr. Adebisi are you serious? you need to cut back on what ever your poison is. not everybody is a mushroom. seriously!! so what is lagos doing that the rest of the states are not doing? religious orgs, NGOs and community-based orgs? what is the benchmark. this story is full of double talk and holes and very pathetic. we have a very long way to go. NEXT, spare your readers the embarassment please. Posted by Truck Pusher on Dec 05 2010 this is laughable, my favorite molue conductor, still yells and curses in Yoruba and pidgin, Posted by Olajide on Dec 05 2010 @All: Being literate does not necessarily mean the ability to understand English. It simply means the ability to read & write in any language. @Truck Pusher: Your Molue conductor will most likely be able to read his pidgin or haven't you been seeing them with local tabloids like 'Alaroye' (Yoruba tabloid). Let's for once appreciate what we've got. Posted by Jrock on Dec 05 2010 @Olajide: Thank you very much for pointing out cogent fact! Many Yoruba speakers can actually read and write in the language. Sadly, many will readily associate illiteracy with the inability to speak English. We need to get rid of this mindset and focus on teaching native speakers how to read and write in their own language or in Pidgin. That's the only way we can reach the adult population. Posted by Lol on Dec 05 2010 LOL Posted by Dayo on Dec 05 2010 @ Olajide and JRock, thank you. Heck, I have met many native English people that can barely speak the language (and I do not mean regional accents like cockney, scouser or geordie) and are still counted as literate. Having said that however, ANY STATISTICAL FIGURES CITED WRT NIGERIA (WHETHER GOOD OR BAD) IS OFTEN INHERENTLY UNRELIABLE! As we presently lack the institustional and infrastructural capacity to accurately collect and collate figures here in Nigeria. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by Nobody: 6:28pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Some of the replies to that post are so thoughtless and imbecilic it makes you want to scream. There's no surprise that Lagos' literacy rate has hit 92%, since our national literacy rate is 72% (source: UNICEF). |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by DapoBear(m): 7:48pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Yeah, literacy is not only defined as English-speaking, reading and writing. If you can read and write Yoruba instead, you are literate. Still, I doubt that 92% figure. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by excanny: 8:29pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Why all the mention of literacy in Yoruba? Lagos is also largely Igbo-speaking. And dont be surprised if the Igbo-speaking population make up this high literacy in Lagos with either literacy in English or Igbo. Igbos currently lead in education in Nigeria( source, JAMB stats), and a large bulk of them are based in Lagos. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by aljharem(m): 8:37pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
DapoBear: excanny: pls forget this yoruba and igbo thing and face the matter |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 8:57pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Lagos should be the most literate state in Nigeria because of its admixture of different peoples However, the 92 % thing is GROSSLY fabulous (purely imaginary) Literacy is about reading and writing, not speaking (since you must speak a language at birth) any language Lagos is not only Yoruba Some current data on state-by-state literacy levels here
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| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by excanny: 8:58pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Almajiri, shouldn't you be worried about Borno.  |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 8:59pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Teachers In Lagos Can’t Write Correct Sentences —Sosan December 16, 2009 14:13, 1,251 views By Kazeem Ugbodaga Many teachers in Lagos State public primary schools cannot write correct sentences, Deputy Governor of the State, Princess Sarah Sosan, has revealed. Sosan explained that the state government cannot tolerate this again, stressing that any teacher who cannot meet the academic standards in the New Year should either be shown the way out or be asked to go back to the training school. The deputy governor who dropped this bombshell at a meeting with Head teachers of public primary schools in the state lamented the decay in the primary school system, adding that there had been a sharp drop in enrolment into public schools within the last 10 years as a result of poor teaching. “Many of our teachers cannot write correct sentences. Those days are over. As we enter the New Year, any teacher who is not able to meet up with the standards will be asked to go or go back to training school. “We have primary six children that are being taught alphabets in JSS 1. The situation is so bad. The performance of our teachers and that of the Head teachers is a concern. Our primary education is bad, it is really, really bad. “Anywhere I go, I get complaints that our teachers can’t speak English. We should improve and that is why we are here. Our primary school teachers must upgrade their knowledge. Many of them are not doing so.They should work on themselves,” Sosan directed. The deputy governor disclosed that although the state government was putting in much to provide qualitative education, the teachers were not helping matters, as some of them were not coming to school at all. According to her, “lots of pupils are no longer coming to our schools, unlike 10 years ago. The problem is qualitative teaching. We hear that some teachers, especially in Epe, don’t come to school at all. God is watching us. “We are not expecting man to reward us. We need to put the fear of God in everything we do. Whether people are watching us or not, do the right thing. Let people have faith in our schools again. “As Head teachers, you don’t need to be afraid of any teacher, whether they have godfathers or not. We need a disciplined educational sector. We are not happy with what is going on in our primary schools. It is so bad,” she lamented. Sosan recounted an experience when she went to Iwaya Primary School, Yaba LCDA and entered into a conversation with a primary four pupil. She said she asked the girl whether she understood what she said. To her consternation, the girl replied in Yoruba language. Sosan asked the Head teachers to do something urgent about the shabby dressing of primary school pupils and warned that henceforth, head teachers of schools where pupils dress shabbily would be sanctioned. “I go into the streets and see our pupils badly dressed. I see pupils with their chest open. We don’t want that anymore. If I see your pupils badly dressed again, we will sanction you as the head teacher. Until they remove their uniforms, they don’t have to be shabbily dressed. We have to start training them. “If teachers are doing their work, we won’t get bad results. Pupils perform poorly because teachers are not doing what they are supposed to do,” she said, adding that the various education secretaries who were expected to monitor the schools had failed. “The education secretaries are not working. We are going into 2010 and there are lots of challenges. Let us try our best, our performance must improve. Please, wake up whoever (head teacher) is sleeping, we have come here for a serious matter,” she said. Chairman, Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Alhaja Gbolahan Daudu, earlier said the essence of the meeting was to exchange ideas on how to improve education in the state. “Education is the bedrock of the society and it starts from nursery and primary schools. It is quite germane to have this kind of meeting often. The essence is to talk as a family in order to ensure a brighter future for our children,” she stated. http://thepmnews.com/2009/12/16/midweekk-special-teachers-in-lagos-can%E2%80%99t-write-correct-sentences-%E2%80%94sosan |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 9:29pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
The Education Trust Fund (ETF) has taken up a huge task: To draw up an interventionist blueprint that will encourage more boy-child education in the Southeast Zone. The ETF claimed to have found out that young Igbo boys, under societal pressure and high parental expectations, prefer to drop out of school to engage in business and trading apprenticeship with the intention of making money than going to school. And according to ETF, the low rate of school enrolment and high dropout rate of boys in Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo states “portend grave danger” for the future of the Igbo ethnic group and the nation at large. Needless to add, it will make the zone miss the 2015 global target of Education for All. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Executive Secretary of ETF, raised the alarm in Owerri, Imo State capital, to Igbo leaders at a recent stakeholders’ forum on boy-child education in the South-East. He said that the ETF research had found out that young Igbo boys do not only refuse to enroll in school, but also drop out early to engage, in some cases, anti-social activities such as kidnapping for ransom. The ETF also listed high societal expectations for male children to get rich quick, lack of gainful employment after graduation from university, poor salaries for workers, parents exposing their children early to trade and other business apprenticeships as causes of the high rate of dropouts. The professor called on the government at all levels, parents, guardians and corporate bodies to give priority to boy-child education in the Southeast zone so as to avert the danger of creating a massive uneducated male population in the land. We commend ETF for its highly laudable observation. But regrettably, in the current economic climate, this observation has little chance of sinking into the minds of the people as speedily and promptly as it should. High graduate unemployment discourages the youth from staying in the classroom. By the time their age-mates graduate into a daily swelling unemployment labour market, the illiterate traders in Onitsha , Aba , Alaba and elsewhere nationwide are comparatively rich, get chieftaincy titles and reserved high-table seats at public gatherings. They marry the prettiest university graduates and the educated men settle for the leftovers. At best, the illiterates employ the graduates and pay them peanuts. These are the realities that ETF’s candid observation will bang its head against. High social pressures in an economy that is not conducive for university graduate employment preclude immediate acceptance of the message, as rational thinking would predict. All the same, ETF’s message is worth the effort, especially since the brilliant poor will be encouraged to stay in the classrooms. Moreover, the consequence of failure in school enrolment now will make the bulk mass of illiterate males grow up, marginalized and insensitive to national political issues in future and render them ineffective leaders of their communities. To worsen it, the illiterate businessmen will have poor business skills with which to engage in unethical business practices and, worst of all, this will increase family instability because of illiterate males marrying female graduates. In other words, the current protests about Igbo marginalization - while the ethnic group has highly qualified persons in every field - will become worse a few decades from now when there will be millions of rich albeit uneducated Igbos, without any qualification to enable them to meet Federal Character quotas. We urge Ohanaeze, Ika Akanga, World Igbo Summit organizers and all important Igbo associations to make ETF’s wake-up call succeed by redirecting their not so smart boys into the classroom |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 9:33pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
igbobuigbo: Since, by your logic, Lagos is also largely Igbo-speaking. And dont be surprised if the Igbo-speaking population make up a [b]huge proportion of Teachers In Lagos who Can’t Write Correct Sentences.[/b]Igbos currently lead in education in Nigeria( source, JAMB stats), and a large bulk of them are based in Lagos |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 9:36pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: I do not expect that Igbos in Lagos will be employed in the state ministry (of education, in this case), if at all, in any large number. Those teachers are Yoruba. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 9:37pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
A few years ago, it would have been very strange to be discussing this issue. Perhaps it sounds strange to you even now, what with the age long challenge of girl child education still remaining unconquered and a million and one NGO’s registered solely to address gender disparity in school enrolment in the country. Nobody however seems to be taking note of a disturbing new trend. There is an alarming decline in boy child enrolment in schools especially in eastern parts of the country to such an extent that I believe it should now be the concern rather than the earlier issue of girl child education. Nobody seems to be asking any questions why there is an increase in the number of boys dropping out of school especially in eastern Nigeria. This is a trend that is so obvious but which there are unfortunately, no figures to prove. It is something we know is happening but which we are either pretending not to have noticed or we don’t seem to have accorded it enough importance to begin to address it. In the past, parents sent only their male children to school, believing albeit erroneously, that the education of their daughters was a waste. Then, the gender disparity favoured the male child as many more boys had the opportunity of accessing western education. Today however, following an erosion of societal values and the increased pursuit for quick wealth that brings about greater acceptance in the society, education and the need to acquire it seems to have lost their attraction. Indeed, wealth itself now buys certificates and positions of leadership. More and more, the average young man is not seeing the need to spend so many years in pursuit of what he can achieve through other means. Spending the same measure of time chasing money seems a more fulfilling endeavour. The situation is not helped by the very poor performance of the Nigerian government in education. At the moment, Federal Government college teachers have downed tools. Their colleagues in primary schools in about nineteen states have also refused to resume for the new academic session due to the failure of government to implement the agreed Teachers Salary Scale. The deadlock in the tertiary level is now a national embarrassment; I need not bore you with it here. Unfortunately and ironically, after many years of expending our resources including grants from international agencies like the United Nations, we cannot boast of having made significant success in redressing the issue of girl child education. It would not therefore be far from the truth to state that whatever r data there is on a reduction in gender disparity the figures are more likely be really about more boys dropping out. These male drop out not to go into apprenticeship in any trade or craft, but straight into the scramble for whatever they can grab. This leaves them either perpetually at the bottom rung of Maslow’s chart or with a desire to do something criminal to rise in it. Ever wonder who the army of Okada riders are? Or the bus conductors and Motor Park touts? What about the boys who harangue you to buy their wares in the traffic? Okay, let’s bring it closer home. Who are the guys robbing the buses and the banks? What is the gender of those taking people hostage? It is not rocket science to note that we are sitting on some kind of time bomb here. A nation that toys with the education of her children, as we seem to be so obsessed with doing at the moment, is surely headed for doom. It becomes even more worrying when it is her male population that is increasingly dropping out of school. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 9:38pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
igbobuigbo: So the only Ibos that can speak and write are the "dorty" spare parts dealers? Way to go brother. . . . Great logic! |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by Obiagu1(m): 9:43pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
92%  I need not say much. We only decieve ourselves. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 9:45pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: Teachers in Lagos state public schools will be populated by Yoruba (mostly of Lagos origin). Just like Imo state public school teachers will be Imo indigenes |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 9:45pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Obiagu1: If we counted the Ibos in Lagos, it would be 95%, but eh, it is what it is. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 9:48pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Stranger I ask that you read the PDF file attached to my first post (# 6) in this thread. Study that stats there. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 9:51pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
From UNESCO, . . . In this division, the North, at the time of independence in 1960, was by far the most underdeveloped area in Nigeria, with a literacy rate of 2% as compared to 19.2% in the East (literacy in Arabic script, learned in connection with religious education, was higher). The West enjoyed a much higher literacy level, 70% in 1960, now 92% in Lagos, being the first part of the country to have contact with western education in addition to the free primary education program of the pre-independence Western Regional Government |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 9:54pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: I ask that you read the 2009 PDF file attached to my first post (# 6) in this thread. Study that stats there. Quit living 40-50 years ago with some FAKE 70% claim and no link to prove it. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 10:07pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
igbobuigbo: So whats the sourse? It changes nothing; as a matter of fact, it affirms the sentiments of the topic of this thread. If your aim is to twist the data to show Igbo supremacy over Yorubas in the area of literacy, the PDF file fails to prove that. Just as you have Igbos in the west, ther are a lot of Yorubas in the East. So any educated conclusion will, no matter how well intentioned, be erroneous and baseless. And also. no one knows if the data in the PDF is drawn from raw date or percentages Careful analysis of the article will show that nothing substantiative can be drawn from it For starters, no one knows the P-value, and who knows what methodology was employed. And what about the identity of the data gatherers? Anyway, If the conclusion makes you happy, hey, bro knock yourself out. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 10:09pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: The source is UNDP via NBS. You can google that, I am sure I have already in my first post acknowledged that Lagos should have the highest literacy level for obvious reason: admixture of people from different ethnicities. I am only insisting that the 92 % claim is wrong, just like your own FAKE 70 % claim as of 1960 So quit ranting like an ant. Check the data for other Yoruba and Igbo states and you get stung in the head |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by oge4real(f): 10:19pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Only 92%? Let them just add the remaining 8% na. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by aljharem(m): 10:35pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
igbobuigbo: seriously i do not know were u get this facts from but i have to be honest here ever nigerian know that the yorubas are the most educated both at home or abroad the jamb u claim is a fake exam because we know they cheat in the exam |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 10:42pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
alj harem: Where did yo get that from That is the FAKE perception the once SW-dominated press made eediots like you believe. The reality is different. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by Abagworo(m): 10:55pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
Everything on this write-up is flawed starting from false population.19,000,000 people cannot live in that compact Lagos(unless Ogun state is included) and our literacy level cannot be up to 92%. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by aljharem(m): 11:00pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
igbobuigbo: guy i know what i am talking about i have been to lagos, ibadan and i know what i am saying even i a small village in sw u find doctors, engineers etc believe me lagos is does not represent the sw also i believe that we northerners need to step up in our education but all i am just saying is that u can nt use jamb result or emegualli to say se is the most educated part in nigeria pls do not hit on me with insult because i do not want to insult u or ur ethnic group just act mature |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 11:06pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
igbobuigbo: Dont tell me that you expect an ethnic group full of people like this (see below) to be the most literate in Nigeria
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| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by aljharem(m): 11:09pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: u do not have to bring pictures why did u do that pls remove the pic |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by stranger: 11:10pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
^^^^ Make me! |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by excanny: 11:22pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: Sefago, Instead of you to bring forward strong arguments to back up your claims, you are beating around the bush posting irrelevant images. That's why it came as a surprise to you that such a people could out-class you academically. I understand your plight, but learn to live with it. |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 11:31pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
stranger: https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-149827.32.html#msg7277862 |
| Re: Lagos Attains 92% Literacy Rate by igbobuigbo: 11:31pm On Dec 05, 2010 |
excanny: So he is Sefago. Let me go and read all the previous posts from Sefago to judge him. |
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