The International Ford Fellowship Program Alumni, Nigeria (IFFPAN) has called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on the Compulsory Basic Education Program Nationwide.

The group in statement on Saturday, urged state governors to prioritize investments in the education sector and rescue primary education in their states, which is the foundation of good education.
This call according to the group’s President Austin Aigbe, follows a viral video of a school located in Taraba State North East, Nigeria, where students learn under a very deplorable condition.
According to the information in the video, the school with a dilapidated bamboo roofing structure has a total of about 250 students, cutting across primary one to six and junior secondary school one.
The group condemns in strong terms the deplorable ambience, the poor learning architecture and the near absence of teaching staff in the school.
Austin Aigbe is the president of the group.