UNESCO: 82 % Nigerian Children Do Not Go to School

In the E-9 group of countries as they were called, which included Nigeria, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Pakistan, only an average 32 per cent of the pre-primary age children were registered in primary schools, according to the report.

But the four worst off countries include Indonesia (19 per cent), Nigeria (18 per cent), Egypt (10 per cent) and Pakistan (eight per cent).

—Childhood care inadequate in Nigeria, says UNESCO report, By Bolaji Adepegba, Senior Correspondent, Lagos, The Daily Idependent [Nigeria] July 15, 2004.