By Chidimma C. Okeke
The Federal Government of Nigeria has agreed to Commitment to Action on Foundational Learning.
On behalf of the government, the Federal Ministry of Education made the endorsement as part of the World Bank summit on Foundational Learning in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nanah Opiah, who is attending the event in the West African country, in a statement, said the commitment to action is to ensure foundational learning serves as a key process to transform education.
The minister said, “This endorsement is underscored by Nigeria’s commitment to continue to ensure that foundational learning is central to enhancing social mobility and tackling intergenerational poverty and marginalisation.
“Nigeria has expanded and will continue to expand the use of technology and innovation to provide out-of-the-box solutions as the central pillar of educational transformation goal.
“As we ensure that every child can read by the age of 10 and galvanise public-private partnership to scale up foundational learning to hard-to-reach areas, we would strengthen pro-poor/pro-family business premises for creating conducive learning environments in homes.”
