{"id":6053,"date":"2019-02-22T18:01:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/22\/the-daunting-challenge-of-fixing-nigerias-education-system\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T18:01:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:01:48","slug":"the-daunting-challenge-of-fixing-nigerias-education-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2019\/02\/22\/the-daunting-challenge-of-fixing-nigerias-education-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The daunting challenge of fixing Nigeria\u2019s education system"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Primary education in Nigeria is officially free \u2013 and compulsory. But in practice, some 8.7 million children of primary school age are out of school, according to UNICEF. In the northern city of Kano, parents are offered financial aid to encourage them to send their children to fee-paying schools. Those who miss out on school opt instead for an apprenticeship. At a local mosque, the imam recruits children from around 40 families each year, training them to become mechanics. Among those who fail to learn a trade, many end up begging on the streets. In the last of five reports in the run-up to Nigeria\u2019s presidential election on Saturday, FRANCE 24\u2019s Anna Cunningham and Mo\u00efse Gomis examine the disparities between the rich and poor in Africa\u2019s most populous country, where children from the north and the south face starkly different prospects when it comes to education.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primary education in Nigeria is officially free \u2013 and compulsory. But in practice, some 8.7 million children of primary school age are out of school, according to UNICEF. In the northern city of Kano, parents are offered financial aid to encourage them to send their children to fee-paying schools. Those who miss out on school &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-6053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}