United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, says Nigeria now has about twenty million out-of-school children which is occasioned by insecurity.
The global data report said there are two hundred and forty-four million children and youths between the ages of six and eighteen worldwide who are still out of school and Nigeria is one of the top three alongside India and Pakistan.
Following this development, stakeholders at the forty-first annual convention of Association of Nigeria Authors in Abuja, harped on the need for parents to be committed to the reading culture of their children.
For the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, represented by the Director Department of Educational Planning Research and Development, Mrs Helen Wang, the Ministry is not relenting in its mission of using education as a tool for fostering development in the country.
The Governor of Benue State, Dr Samuel Ortom, represented by his Chief of Defense staff, Mr Tivlumun Njitse, on his part, challenged writers to remain committed to the task of ensuring that literature continues to add value to the nations corporate existence and imbibe a healthy reading culture in the younger generation.
The President of the Association, Mr Camillus Ukah, stressed the need for writers to take up their correctional roles in shaping and re-shaping the society through literature.
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