Free and compulsory basic education is a right of every child says Nigerian Constitutional Court

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday declared free and compulsory basic education up to Junior Secondary School as an enforceable right for every Nigerian child. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by a civil society group, the Legal Defence and Assistance Project, Justice John Tosho declared that federal and state governments had constitutional duties to provide adequate funding for the [...] Read more here: Nigerian Eye