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Why COVID-19 and falling oil prices are a threat to education in Nigeria

Students read a book at the Makoko floating school on the Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria February 29, 2016. In Makoko, a sprawling slum of Nigeria's megacity Lagos, a floating school capable of holding up to a hundred pupils has since November brought free education to the waterways known as the Venice of Lagos. It offers the chance of social mobility for youngsters who, like most of the city's 21 million inhabitants, lack a reliable electricity and water supply and whose water-based way of life is threatened by climate change as well as rapid urbanisation. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES - GF10000333183

COVID-19 will exacerbate pre-existing educational inequalities in Nigeria Image: REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye

Thelma Obiakor
Research Fellow, CSEA
Thelma Obiakor
Research Fellow, CSEA
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Total Budget (Naira) and Education Budget (% of Total Budget)
Total Budget (Naira) and Education Budget (% of Total Budget) Image: Authors’ Compilation

Education Budget (% of GDP) and (% of government Expenditure)
Education Budget (% of GDP) and (% of government Expenditure) Image: World Bank Database
Total Budgetary Allocation (Naira)
Total Budgetary Allocation (Naira) Image: 2008-2010 Appropriation Act Source: Authors’ compilation
Education Expenditure as a Share of GDP (Percent)
Education Expenditure as a Share of GDP (Percent) Image: 2008-2010 Appropriation Act Source: Authors’ compilation

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