India, Nigeria and Pakistan are the countries with the highest number of out-of-school children, according to records by the UN agency UNESCO.
Poor implementation of policies, a persistent insurgency, has exacerbated Nigeria’s out-of-school crisis.
The organisation also said that it would assist the Edo government to take out-of-school children in the state back to their classrooms.
About 100 of the 270 Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram on April 14, 2014 remained in captivity.
Eight Nigerians in the UK who have “broken the glass ceiling’’ have been honoured by the Nigerian-British Business Forum at a high-profile event in London.
Records show that 1.4 million of the students are in Nigeria’s North-West, the hotbed of persistent abductions.
UK charity IA-Foundation has described as shameful the mass abduction of Nigerian schoolchildren by bandits, calling on the UK government to help Nigeria.
The group wants the United Nations to launch a rescue plan to help Nigeria put an end to the recurring abductions.
