The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has revealed that Nigeria has a shortfall of around 195,000 teachers at the primary level and only 84 percent of the current primary school teachers and 59 percent of Junior Secondary School (JSS) teachers are qualified to teach.

UNICEF Nigeria’s Chief of Education, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan, made the revelation at the National Conference on the Learning Crisis in Nigeria. She stated that the quality of teaching in Nigeria is hindered by poor pedagogical skills and a lack of teaching and learning materials.

She remarked that only half of Nigeria’s children are developmentally on track in early childhood and 60 percent take part in organized pre-primary learning which lead to late primary entry and poor learning outcomes.

Panday-Soobrayan stated that 60 percent of public JSS classrooms in Borno, Kano, Kaduna and Kebbi States do not have teaching materials and expressed concerns over the slow progress towards meeting the SDG4 commitments, which aim to ensure inclusive and qualitative education for all, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. She added that sub-Saharan Africa has achieved just 41 per cent of SDG4 commitment.

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