If there is anything those who are into the development of countries are convinced about, it is that no society can truly develop without putting children, often its youngest demographic, at the center of any development. This has so often proven an irreducible requirement in the building of strong and sustainable countries.
Nigeria is far from an easy place to be a child. Those tender, innocent and vulnerable years are better lived elsewhere than in the country where shocking conditions often make for a notoriously difficult environment for children. To compound the present predicament of Nigerian children is the fact that the future is looking bleak for the millions of children who are currently out of school.
For decades, figures between 10.5 million and 15 million were bandied about as the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. The sharp spike in the number of has been put down to the Nigeria`s degenerating security situation.