Giving Compass' Take:

· Writing for Global Citizen, Timothy Obiezu discusses a new UNICEF survey showing that the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria has increased by 2.7 million, making it the largest number around the world. The author explains that Boko Haram has been a large contributor to these numbers. 

· How does this affect the Nigerian economy? What are some other factors contributing to the large number of out-of-school children? 

· Check out this article to gain more insight on Nigerian schools.

A survey conducted by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) indicates that the population of out of school children in Nigeria has risen from 10.5 million to 13.2 million, the highest in the world. Most of these children are in Nigeria's northern states of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa, where Boko Haram insecurities have disrupted academic activities.

The indistinctive chatter of young children playing outdoors is very familiar. The boys are playing football while the girls are jumping around.

Most of the children are out of school while some have never been to school.

Favour Shikaan a mother, is not left out of the fun. She joins the children's play.

But sometimes she worries about her children’s future.

"They are four in number and ... two are going to school. The other one is small actually, but even though she's small, she has grown to the stage whereby she can go to school if not the financial...like the two that are going to transport from here to Apo resettlement everyday is not easy because there's no money due to our economy today,” Shikaan said.

Shikaan and her four children fled a Boko Haram onslaught in Borno in 2015 to settle here, in Abuja.

Read the full article about out-of-school children in Nigeria by Timothy Obiezu at Global Citizen.