By Dayo Adesulu
The devastating effects of nine years of insurgency attacks on North-East school buildings, teachers and students have brought education in that zone years backwards.
Statistics showed that 2,295 teachers have been killed and 19,000 others displaced in Bornu, Yobe and Adamawa States in the last nine years, while an estimate of 1,500 schools had been destroyed since 2014, with over 1,280 casualties among teachers and students. Many of these incidents were never reported by the national media.
The popular ones that drew the attention of all and sundry to the situation only reported the Kidnapped Chibok secondary school girls and the Dapchi girls.
For status quo to be restored to those affected States, stakeholders say education is key to their complete recovery.
Bothered by this trend, the Federal Government had established the Education Revitalization Programme which aim at bringing restoration to educational affected areas in the country.
During the week,…
