During a training and capacity-building session for executive chairs of state and Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Universal Basic Education Boards, Bobboyi made this statement at the Lagos Business School.
The number of children aged 6 to 11 who are not enrolled in school will decrease from 9.6 million in 2021 to 9.5 million in 2022, according to data from UBEC. This number was 10.2 million in 2018.
Children who are not in school between the ages of 6 and 18 have been the subject of data collection by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to this data, 20 million Nigerian children between the ages of 6 and 11 do not attend school.
In order to clarify the information above, Bobboyi pointed out that many people still do not understand the notion of "nature" or how UNESCO arrived at the figure of 20 million out-of-school children, and that UNESCO has adopted a new methodology with the Sustainable Development Goal in mind.
According to him, all that needs to be done to reduce the proportion of kids who are not in school is for the government to "make a push" in that direction. He said, "UBEC has its statistics and has given them to UNESCO."
Bobboyi has asked the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), and other significant stakeholders to collaborate in accordance with their respective mandates to progress the sector while highlighting challenges in the field.