Nigeria, June 15 -- Nigeria currently has 13.2 million out-of-school children, the highest rate anywhere on earth, according to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF).

The rate - about 47 per cent - means that one in every five children is out of school.

Most of these children are in Nigeria's North East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa, where Boko Haram activities have disrupted academic activities for a decade now. Other states and regions are also seriously affected, and one of them is Nasarawa in the North central region.

Nasarawa, next door to the federal capital, Abuja, has a significant percentage of out-of-school children. And one factor that has not helped reverse this problem, analysts say, is th...