54 per cent of Nigerians are Illiterates - Ex ASUU President

A former President, Academic Staff Union of Universities, Oladipo Fashina says 54 per cent of Nigerians are illiterates.
He said this in Abuja at the opening of National Education Summit with theme Toward a System of Education for Liberation in Nigeria. Prof. Fashina said only 15 per cent of Nigerians have managed to attain higher education since the country’s independence.

He said the education sector has witnessed policy summersaults arising from inadequate conception of the philosophy, purpose and practice of education and class domination.