The Federal Government has expressed commitment to return 15 million out-of-school children back to the classroom by 2027.
According to Punch News, "The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday at a one-day retreat on Quick Wins in the Ministerial Deliverables (2023-2027).
"Mamman explained that the learning crisis had also been a major issue which he said was a bad product of the out-of-school menace, hence, must be taken seriously.
"He said having robust policies in place was not enough to tackle the challenges but delivering on the policies would go a long way in addressing the problems of out-of-school children.
“The Federal Ministry of Education has further distilled the implementation of the ministerial deliverables to a more detailed implementation with turnaround strategies that would be measurable and capable of providing results that would be very visible to the Nigerian public.
“On out-of-school menace, we would be paying particular attention to this unacceptable phenomenon and in line with President Bola Tinubu’s commitment, would work towards returning 15 million out-of-school children to the classrooms by the year 2027,” he said.
"The minister said Tinubu had approved the reintroduction and implementation of school feeding across basic educational levels.
Reacting to this, the Founder of All Campus Show Nigeria, Hon. Busuyi Ojo-Jobus disagreed with the Minister's points, he called it a speculation.
Jobus also made his point that the Federal Government cannot return out of school students unless they make job opportunities available to the graduates, and also make the economy suitable for everyone to live peaceful, when children see opportunities in education, you will not need to cajole them to learn in school.
In his statement, Jobus made a plea to the President to attend to ASUU and other teachers, he said that their dissatisfaction has affected the students while the Students are not interested in Education anymore.
Talking about Minister's points, Jobus said it is wrong for the ministry of education to see feeding the Students as priority, if the Government works on the economy that makes parents earn better than now, the parents will be able to feed their children by themselves, when parents can feed their feed the family, the government can still feed the Students, because this is how it was in the earlier Nigeria, there were good job opportunities for the graduates, and for the parents as well as free feeding to the students, you can't neglect ASUU's need and you are talking about feeding the students which is not your priority.