On the 20th March an adjournment debate was held in the House of Commons to discuss how Nigeria is addressing its major educational challenges, particularly education for girls and community involvement in education. The debate was called by Bob Blackman MP, who along with Mark Williams MP and Helen Grant MP, was part of a delegation of UK parliamentarians from the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Education for All which visited Nigeria in February. (RESULTS provides a part-time secretariat for the APPG, working closely with the Global Campaign for Education UK). The delegation visited schools in the Federal Capital Territory and Lagos, and also met with Nigerian politicians, school governing bodies and saw the impact of British aid on the ground. Nigeria has 10% of the world’s children of primary age who are not in school (an estimated 8.5 million, the largest number of any country in the world), the majority being girls. Continue reading →