About 92 pupils attending the LEA Primary School, Etsu Dagba, Dobi Ward, Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT, Abuja have been captured on camera learning under the tree.
This was seen in a post shared on X (formerly Twitter) by Monitng which revealed how the pupils were struggling to acquire education under the shade of a tree because of absence of classroom.
Monitng wrote: “This is the current state of LEA Primary School, Etsu Dagba, Dobi Ward, Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT, Abuja.
“Where over 92 pupils are learning under the shade of trees.
“We are calling on the responsible stakeholders to do the needful.”
A situation like the Dobi Ward is what makes the figure of out-of-school-children keeps getting worse in the country.
According to the World Bank, Nigeria, in 2020, had more than 11 million out-of-school children between the ages of 6 and 15. This figure represents 1 in 12 of all out-of-school children globally and 22 per cent of all children in the age group in Nigeria.
Instead of tackling the rot in the public education in the FCT, the minister, Nyesom Wike is after private school owners and how to increase their taxes and levies.
In January, SaharaReporters reported how the proprietors of Abuja-based private schools have rejected the decision of the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Wike, to increase their operation charges in the FCT.
The school owners noted that if the decision was not reversed, it would amount to an unprecedented increase in tuition fees which would affect the students and their wards.
The new tax regime proposed by Wike would assess each institution based on student tuition and enrollment figures.