Twenty-four states across the country are currently battling with a deficit of 260,551 classrooms in their public primary schools, The PUNCH has learnt.
The figure was contained in the Universal Basic Education Commission’s data obtained by our correspondent on Thursday.
UBEC is a Federal Government agency saddled with the responsibility of coordinating all aspects of implementing the Universal Basic Education Programme, which was introduced in 1999 as a reform programme aimed at providing greater access to and ensuring the quality of basic education throughout Nigeria.
In the document obtained by UBEC on Thursday, the commission highlighted some factors responsible for the development and the increasing number of out-of-school children in Nigeria.
