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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 United Nations estimates that 60% of the children not attending school are in the north of the country - which has been hit hard by poverty. In this episode, 大象传媒 Hausa's Mohammed Kabir Mohammed explains how economic difficulties impact on education. Nigeria's education ministry says it is committed to providing an ''inclusive and functional education system''.

(Photo: A young girl walks down a hallway in a shared accommodation house, in Lagos, Nigeria, 2017. Credit: Stefan Heuni/AFP/Getty Images)