A civil society organisation, Human Development Initiatives, has warned that Nigeria may fail in its aim to attain the Sustainable Development Goal 4 target set by the United Nations.
The SDG Goal 4 which is among the 17 SDGs established by the UN in September 2015, seeks to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all by 2030.
HDI’s Program and Communications Officer, Sanmi Johnson Ibidapo, disclosed this in a statement he issued on Wednesday, during HDI 2022 National Education Summit holding in Abuja.
According to Ibidapo, concerted efforts must be made to save Nigeria’s education system, or else the quest to attain the SDG Goal 4 “might remain a mirage.”
Ibidapo said that the Summit-themed, ‘Building Qualitative, Inclusive And Adaptive Education System: Meeting Modern-day Education Challenges In Nigeria’ is a follow up to the first Summit which was held in February 2021.
He said, “With recent happenings in the country, particularly insecurity in schools, coupled with infrastructural deficits, moral decay and ethnoreligious issues and their effects on the school system, the attainment of SGD Goal-4 by 2030 might remain a mirage if deliberate steps are not taken.
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“It is thus important to ensure concerted efforts of all stakeholders, who through advocacy, initiatives and tech-driven innovations will help create an effective, efficient, inclusive and adaptive education system; a system that continues to function even in the event of future pandemics that may come upon the world.
“Such systems can only leverage on technology to bridge the gaps in our educational sector for qualitative, inclusive and continuous learning as well as the institutionalization of transparency, accountability and good governance.”
Speaking further, Ibidapo called for multiple, constructive national discourse and dialogues on how to chart the course forward on qualitative, inclusive and adaptive education in Nigeria.
“This National Education Summit is intended to be one of such issue-based and solution-generating programs put together by our organisation Human Development Initiatives, with the support of MacArthur Foundation.
“At the end of this program, we hope to produce a Communique of all issues raised with succinct recommendations for policymakers to give all Nigerians a Qualitative, inclusive and Adaptive Education System,” he added.
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