OPINION: Poverty, Survival, and the Hidden Variable in Southwest Nigeria’s Learning Crisis
“I feel hawking is better than begging,” said a 16-year-old SS3 student, standing at a busy Ibadan motor park during school hours. With a tray of sachet water on her head, she captured in seven words what years of policy documents and statistics have failed to fully convey: that Nigeria’s education crisis, at its root, …