 Nigerians are calling for more funding and provision of digital equipment to fast-track learning in public schools in the country as the country celebrates the Day of the African Child. A non-government organization project Hope Alive donated learning materials to model primary school as Okoro in the federal capital territory, Abuja. As Nigerians join the rest of Africa to celebrate Day of the African Child, stakeholders are calling on the federal governments to adequately fund and equip public schools in the country with modern learning equipment, including computers. They blame the government for the drop in the standard of education in public schools due to neglect which have forced privileged Nigerians to abandon public schools for private ones. A lot of public primary schools are in a dilapidated condition and the learning condition has also been challenging. So also, like the team of this year suggests, the right of the child in a digital environment. Coupled with all the natural issues the children are facing, we are also being faced with the issue of digital poverty. If you look at the African children and the schools, a lot of them are not digital compliant. So as the world is moving even to the AI era, Nigeria is even yet to cope with traditional technology system to support education. So we are using the Day of the African Child to highlight these issues and acknowledge the fact that the right of the child is a fundamental right, that every stakeholder must work hard to support and promote. We want all the wives of governors and the wife of the president to adopt charge-friendly pet projects under this new dispensation because we believe we don't have the institutional framework that specifically focuses on promoting and protecting children. We also want a situation where we are able to balance the risk of technology and the advantage of technology for children. The Director General of the Niger Institute of Legislative and Democratic Studies Professor Sulaiman Abu Bakar, who was represented by Director Training Rukayat Atta, showed that the institutes will continue to support worthy educational projects that will impact positively on the growth and development of the country. The event featured cultural dances from six geopolitical regions of the country and debate amongst the popes on the advantages in digital education for the country. Donations of digital education equipment, isolating materials, which includes exercise books, pens sales, pens and toiletries, were donated to the school. The theme of this event is rights of the child in the digital environment. Domicile in the primary school, in the hand of local government, is not an ideal thing. Even when federal government is collaborating using UBEC to collaborate with the state, you know, also outfields, has also not helped matter. You know, I think the federal government should take, you know, control in terms of highly funding it, you know, specifically, you know, without sharing money to any agencies that will take part of those money to do issues of administrative purposes. Our primary schools are in bad shape. Even the school that we are doing this program today, most of the classroom have no chairs. So it takes you a lot of things that if a child cannot see them properly in an environment and you are talking about digital, you know, space, that means we have a very long way to come and these children must be able to meet up compared to those of them primary schools. Our children are in primary schools and that's not fair to them. Whatever opportunity he has, you know, to educate the children or to ensure that we completely eradicate this, you know, gap in education for the Nigerian child, he would do it. And I think it's about, it's not necessarily about institutions, but about the vision of the person behind the institution. So I think that every child sat here, feels like today is a big day, you know, and they will never forget it. It will go down in history. You can't erase it, you know, from their memories because I can't erase the ones I had when I was a child in my memory. So I think it's a wonderful, wonderful day. Hello. Hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.