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Nigeria's government recently acknowledged for the first time that the country has the highest number of children out of school in the world. It says there are 10.5 million children not being educated. Education officials have blamed cultural factors, nomadic communities and the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency; but critics point to a lack of funding. The country's education ministry says it is committed to providing an ''inclusive and functional education system''.

In part one of our series, 大象传媒 Pidgin's Editor Adejuwon Soyinka explains how northern and southern states are affected differently by the problem.

(Photo: A student at Whanyinna floating school, in Lagos, Nigeria, 2016. Credit: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images)