Ibadan, 02 February, 2022 / 8:45 pm (ACI Africa).
Catholic Bishops of Nigeria’s Ibadan Ecclesiastical Province (IEP) have expressed concern about the West African nation’s ailing education system, which they say can be revitalized to address other challenges the country is facing.
In their Tuesday, February 1 communiqué issued following a two-day meeting, the Catholic Bishops attribute increasing level of drug addiction, armed robbery, rape, truancy and other crimes in the country to what they describe as “depressed system of education in our nation.”
“We cannot express enough our concern about the state of education in Nigeria to which many solutions have been proffered with only limited implementation,” the Catholic Bishops in IEP say, and add, “We urge the government at all levels to adequately fund education in Nigeria, paying just wages and remunerations and providing necessary facilities for educational programs.”
In their meeting held at the Jubilee Conference Centre in Ibadan Archdiocese from Monday, January 31 to Tuesday, February 1, the Bishops say that the current education system in Africa's most populous nation is a threat to the future of the youth in the country.
The Catholic Bishops shepherding the people of God in the Catholic Archdiocese of Ibadan and the Dioceses of Ekiti, Ilorin, Ondo, Osogbo, and Oyo call upon Nigeria’s State governments that have seized schools from private owners to return them as one way of salvaging the education system in the country.